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In  exposing  a  world-wide  bunco  game  it  is  necessarj^  to  call  a 
spade  a  spade  and  the  reader  will  excuse  the  use  of  the  short  and 
ugly  word  in  this  treaty. 

For  the  results   of  this  unprecedented  lying  are  these: 


AT  VERSAILLES 

The  most  dastardly  peace  in  the  world's  history  under  the  muz- 
zles  of   a   thousand   loaded   cannon   is    signed. 

Germany  gagged,  bound  and  crippled,  is  made  the  vassal,  slave 
and  dependant  of  the  rapacious  janus-faced  allies  for  generations  to 
come. 

Germany  v/as  not  defeated  by  the  whole  world,  but  by  her  own 
stupidity.       Stupiditj^  imperial,  bourgeois  and  socialistic. 

Germany  used,  as   did  the   allies,  all  the   modern   weapons   avail- 
i/ablc,  but  she  fell  short  in   the  poisoned  lie  and  blackguard  calumny, 

J     In   no  war  before   was  the  lie  used,  nor  with  such   deadly  effect 
\y^Q)\\   so   many   innocent   people. 


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Never  before   was  lying  protected  by  law  and  made  a  virtue  as 
in  the  world  war. 


Truly  the  pen  is  mightier  than  the  sword,  but  it  out-poisoned 
any  poison  gas  and  hung  high  the  record  of  false  witness  ending  in 
bloodshed  and  famine,  Germany  robbed  of  the  last  ounce  of  the 
babies'  milk  by  the  so-called  peace-treaty,  staggers  for  generations 
to  come  under  a  tax  increase  of  900  per  cent. 

y       Laboring  for  years  as  no  nation  has  labored  to  keep  from  being 

•^neither  beggar  nor  robber,  she  now  labors  and  slaves  for  her  vicious 

conquerors,  who  gleefully  rub  their  hands  and  say,  "It  is  a  just  peacj;^ 

Well  may  the  world   shudder  at  the  next  "just  peace."     The  ex- 


V(i 


inction  of  whole  nations  may  be  a  necessary  part  of  it. 

? 


Germany  Did  Not  Start  the  War 


is  only  a  malicious  and  bigoted  ignoramus,  who  says  Germany 
stafted  the  world  war!  J  You  need  not  refer  to  the  miscellaneous 
white,  yellow,  orange  or  red  books.  These  are  all  clouted  in  the 
respective  national  prejudices  they  are  written  in.  You  need  not 
quote  the  ambassadors  of  the  different  courts,  for  their  evidence  in 
all  cases  is  biased  and  weak,  Henry  Morgenthau's  hearsay  evidence 
about  the  Kaiser's  Potsdam  conference  on  July  5,  1914,  where  manu- 
facturers, bankers  and  others  were  asked  were  they  ready  for  war, 
is  only  typical  of  "alarm  Fritz,"  as  Wilhelm  II.  was  dubbed  quite  early 
in  his  reign.  The>  adjourned  and  went  on  their  vacations.  James 
W.  Gerard's  book^^'My  four  years  of  spying  in  Germany,  how  well  I 
was  treated  and  how  little  I  saw  of  war  preparations,"  is  pretty  good 
proof  alone  that  Germany  is  not  guiltyT^He  was  there  on  the  spot. 
Prejudiced,  full  of  hate,  unscrupulous,  'f^he  Willy-Nicky  letters  pub- 
lished by  Lenine  and  Trotzky  prove  that  the  Kaiser  tried  hard  to 
keep  Russia  out  of  it  or  if  possible  prevent  a  world  calamity,  Poult- 
ney  Bigelow  in  "Travel"  for  October,  1918,  writes  :  "The  Kaiser  once 
assured  me  in  a  voice  vibrant  with  conviction  that  never  under  any 
conceivable  circumstances  could  he  be  induced  to  war  upon  Russia," 
And  why  should  he? 

Germany  and  Russia  since  Adam's  time  had  littl^war,  their  in- 
terests did  not  conflict  except  for  the  vile  entente.  /The  entente  or 
understanding  among  nations,  the  unholy  conspiracy~to  do  up  Ger- 
many, which  the  average  literary  liar  so  assiduously  ignores,  caused 
the  war — started  the  warr7  Germany,  excelling  in  the  arts  of  peace, 
made  two  blades  of  grass^  grow  where  there  was  only  one,  enlight- 
ened the  world  in  the  arts  and  sciences,  furnished  cheaper  and  better 
merchandise,  aroused  the  nations  who  had  become  great  only  through 
robbery.  The  entente  was  originated  by  an  ugly-visaged  Frenchman 
named  Delcasse,  who,  thirsting  for  revenge,  inveigled  Russia  in  1893. 
Englanld  under  Sir  Edward  Grey  and  Winston  Churchill  delightedly 
joined.  Quickly  the  latter  got  Japan  to  join,  and  the  triple  entente 
grew  into  a  quintuple  and  sextuple  conspiracy,  for  Italy  and  Belgium 
had  likewise  secret  understandings.  And  Germany  toiled  on.  Wil- 
helm scratched  his  dome,  wrote  useless  letters  to  Nicholas,  appointed 
von  Moltke  chief  of  the  staff,  not  because  the  General  knew  anything, 
but  because  he  was  related  to  the  great  von  Moltke.  Germany  should 
have  attacked  the  British  navy  when  it  was  scattered,  if  Germany 
wanted  to  start  a  world  war.  But  they  could  not  think  any  further 
than   Paris.     Germany  had  no  other  plans   than   those  of  1870. 


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THEY  HAD  NO  PLANS 

Now,  I  ask,  was  this  entente,  alliance,  understanding  or  con- 
spiracy to  ward  off  any  calamity  that  Germany  was  likely  to  bring, 
was  it  for  defensive  purposes?  Was  it  for  special  high  aims  to  en- 
lighten the  world?  Remember  Russian  depotism  was  in  the  bunch. 
What  e-rievance  did  Japan  have  ?  f^JA^hat  grievance  did  any  of  them 
have  r^  Was  not  the  booty  to  eacnmember  of  the  entente  parceled 
out  h6ng  before  the  war  started?  Japan  to  get  Kiau-Chou,  France 
Alsace-Lorraine,  England  the  German  colonies,  and  plenty  of  ships 
and  endless  indemnities.  The  secret  treaties  were  known.  Even 
Italy,  Roumania  and  Greece  had  their  loot  bargained  and  promised. 
Only   the   rankest   bigot  ^ji,,d,eiiy_Lbis. 


Did  not  the  whole  arrangement  from  Aigeciras  to  Sarajebo  look 
like  a  "progrom?"  Germany  for  its  victim^Was  there  a  date  set  for 
the  massacre  of  Germans  to  begin?  No,  ""apparently  not.  Any  first 
handy  opportunity  would  d^|^  Although  in  the  fall  of  1913  France 
called  out  almost  her  entire  male  population  for  military  service, 
showing  they  were  heading  for  a  war.  England  likewise  excited  the 
populace  with  a  possible  invasion  of  England  produced  in  moving 
pictures. 

In  1911  Germany  sent  a  small  gunboat,  the  Panther,  to  Agadir, 
on  the  Morocco  coast,  to  guard  her  interests.  At  once  the  news- 
papers raised  a  cry  of  surprise.  Why  a  Gerrnaji  warship  on  the 
Morocco  coast?  Why,  indeed,  you  ignoramii?CLt  was  to  test  up 
the  vicious  entente's  plans,  to  show  their  handsT/They  showed  their 
teeth.  Germany  did  not  fight,  but  she  got  some  information.  Was 
Germany  prepared  to  fight  the  entente?  To  a  certain  extent,  yes. 
Like  the  property  owner  surrounded  by  robbers  is  armed,  so  was 
Germany  to  a  certainextent  prepared  something  like  25  per  cent. 
England's  navy  was  collected  in  June,  1914,  no  doubt  to  "Lord  Nel- 
son"  the  German   navy   without   any   declaration   of   war. 

Now  this  collection  of  the  British  Navy  from  all  quarters  of  the 
globe  in  June,  1914,  just  before  the  Sarajebo  murder,  is  on  record. 
Was  it  just  a  coincidence?  Out  on  maneuvers?  In  the  Baltic?  On 
a  friendly  visit  to  Kiel?  And  James  W.  Gerard  thinks  it  was  a  slip 
of  the  tongue  when  Prince  Henry  of  Prussia,  in  his  toast,  said  to  the 
British  Admiral,  "We  are  sorry  you  are  going  and  sorry  you  came." 
They  were  looking  for  the  German  Navy,  but  were  shown  plenty  of 
sailing  yachts.  They  departed  without  gaining  anything.  Then  the 
Italian  Ambassador  Celere,  let  the  cat  out  of  the  bag  and  put  in  a 
formal  request  for  the  British  fleet  not  to  disband,  which  meant  that 
there  was  still  hope  of  getting  up  a  war  on  Germany,  for  if  you  don't 
succeed  at  first,  try  again.  It  shows  plainly  that  Italy  then  early  in 
July,  1914,  had  traitorously  joined  the  entente.  This  was  before  any 
gun  was  fired.  England  did  not  mobilize  any  troops  any  more  than  is 
always  mobilized.  She  depended  entirely  on  her  navy  to  get  the 
lion's  share  in  the  partition  of  Germany.  Russia  and  France  could 
furnish  the  necessary  cannon  fodder. /Besides,  Germany  could  easily 
be   licked  by  any   first-class  power,  wifich   the   entente   thought   they 


wcreTH 


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THE  ENTENTE'S  PLAN  TO  START  WAR  FROM  THE 

EAST 

By  not  being  prepared,  Germany  lost  thousands  of  her  merchant 
fleet.  Germany  should  have  had  1,000  submarines — she  had  only  ten. 
She  should  have  had  millions  of  bales  of  cotton  and  other  raw  mate- 
rial like  nickel,  copper,  oil  and  rubber,  but  apparently  had  only  the 
3iormal  supply.  She  should  have  had  poispn  gas  by  the  ton,  but 
could  not  think  of  gas  until  April,  1915. /H,ad  Germany  threatened 
the  liberty  of  any  nation?  Not  that  any^iar  can  prov'e^  You  need 
not  quote  Treitzschke,  von  Bernhardi,  Nitzsche  or  the  Pan-German 
press,  for  these  scribes  were  scarcely  known  until  raked  out  by 
vicious,  exaggerating  entente  scribes.  These  German  writers  only 
showed  their  utter  incapacity  to  fathom  the  world  scheme  of  the 
entente  and  were  no  match  for  the  English  and  French  Bernhardis 
or  Nitzsches.  Autocracy  P^Remember  all  Europe  i  s  a  nest  of  Kings 
and  Kingdoms  iu^m  the  remotest  times,  with  aristocracy  and  classes 
deeply  rooted.  /^The  republics  in  Europe  know  nothing  of  personal 
libertyT}For  a  re"public  to  rail  against  German  autocracy  would  be 
too  near  the  pot  calling  the  kettle  black.^Did  the  shaky  triple 
alliance,  which  Italy  so  shamefully  betrayed,  cause  the  conspiracy 
of  nations  known  as  the  entente,  afterwards  the  allies?  Certainly 
not.  The  triple  alliance  was  extremely  modest  and  certainly  not 
olTensive.    Even   "J'Accuse"   says   it   was   a   sham. 

German  autocracy  never  intimidated  any  nation  before  the  war 
and  stayed  strictly  within  its  own  borders.  All  intimidation  rested 
with  the  entente  .  The  Berlin  to  Bagdad  railroad  was  a  civilizing 
undertaking  and  a  natural  sign  of  the  onmarch  of  civilization.  Ger- 
many among  the  conspirators  was  the  only  rightful  nation  to  put 
this    through. 

Germany  averted  the  world  war  in  th  e  Morocco  affair.  But  in 
the  Sarajebo  murder — which  may  have  been  staged  by  the  entente 
for  war  purposes — ^Russia  was  not  going  to  let  the  opportunity  go  by. 
The  Sukhomlinoff  trial  ampl  y  proved  that  Russia  mobilized  first  and 
was  bent  on  war.  "And,"  writes  Poultney  Bigelow  in  true  English 
literary  backbiting  style,  "he  (the  Kaiser)  impatiently  refused  every 
mediatory  effort?"  Did  he?  Could  he?  With  the  entente  ready  for 
the  world's  vilest  progrom  there  was  no  time  to  parley?  Russia 
would  have  been  halfway  to  Berlin  while  German  parleyed  to  please 
the  robbe  r  entente.  No  doubt  parleying  was  part  of  the  entente's 
attack,  throwing  dust  into  Germany's  and  the  world's  eyes.  In  the 
book,  "How  the  War  Began,"  by  J.  M,.  Kennedy  (the  Climax),  it  is 
plainly  shown  that  the  German  Ambassador  at  Petrograd  implored 
the  Russian  authorities  at  2  a.  m.  on  July  30,  1914,  to  stop  mobiliza- 
tion. Emperor  William  telegraphed  Czar  Nicholas  the  night  of  July 
31,  1914,  for  the  same  purpose.  These  are  public  records,  which  no 
liar  can  deny. 

When  King  Peter  of  Serbia  rode  in  air  oxcart  through  Monte- 
negro in  utter  defeat,  he  sent  a  telegram  to  St.  Petersburg,  holding 
the  Czar's  advisers  responsible  for  his  downfall.  This  was  the  most 
eloquent  testimony  to  Russia's  guilt.  He  did  not  accuse  Austria.  He 
knew  that  Serbia  likewise  fired  the  first  shot?^-*"^ 

Did  King  Albert  of  Belgium  likewise  send  a  telegram  to  Great 
Britain  on  account  of  his  defeat?  If  he  did,  the  public  does  not  know 
of  it.  Yet  Great  Britain  was  as  much  responsible  for  Belgium's 
defeat  as  Russia  was  for  Serbia's.  Belgium,  like  Luxembourg,  could 
easily  have  permitted  the  German  Army  to  pass  through  her  terri- 
tory, made  money,  stayed  happy  and  prosperous,  but  for  the  evil 
advice  of  Great  Britain.  Would  have  been  unneutral?  What  was 
she  when  she  joined  the  robber  entente?  True,  she  had  a  treaty 
with  German  for  no  trespass,  which  Germany  tore  up.  The  scrap  of 
paper  that  the   ente  liars   so  loudlv  quote. 


THE  SCRAP  OF  PAPER 

That  treaty  was  not  a  scrap  of  paper — it  became  Germany's  death 
warrant.  In  the  hour  of  last  extremity  anybody  who  can  may  tear 
his  death  warrant.  Note  that  down,  ye  quibblers  in  international  law. 
Germany's  stupid  diplomacy  called  it  a  scrap  of  paper,  likewise  a 
military  necessity.  There  was  a  higher  and  holier  reason  ^the  su- 
preme law  of  self-preservation.  Five  or  more  robbers  attacked  a 
workingman  and  the  robbers  testify  they  were  attacked.  What 
idiocy  it  would  have  been  for  Germany  to  walk  into  France  and  leave 
a  fanatic  hating  little   assassin  country  in   its   flank  and   rear. 

Yes,  but  how  about  the  Lichnowsky  testimony,  the  testimony  of 
Dr.  Muehlon,  von  Beerfelde,  Harden  and  others?  Well  does  their 
lying  testimony  corroborate  any  events  of  or  previous  to  the  war? 
JJoes  it  explain  away  the  existence  o£  the  entente?  Or  will  you 
say  that  the  entente  was  a  harmless  Sunday  school  aggregation  bent 
on  benefitting  Germany?  The  very  alarming  side  of  this  aggregation 
precludes  any  idea  of  defensive  purposes. 

Yes,  says  the  professional  literary  liar:  Nothing  better  proves 
the  innocence  of  the  entente  than  does  the  fact  that  they  first  met 
German  armies  on  their  own  soil.  This  is  a  lie.  Russia  broke  into 
Germany  and  did  considerable  damage  before  she  was  ejected.  The 
French  held  their  armies  four  or  five  miles  from  the  frontier,  ex- 
pecting Germany  to  be  fool  enough  to  attack  prepared  impregnable 
positions.  Germany  outwitted  them  and  went  through  Belgium, 
rhe  entente  meant  to  start  the  war  from  the  east,  with  the  British 
Navy  co-operating.  The  British  Navy  was  several  weeks  too  early 
or  Russia  too   slow. 

The  howl  was  not  so  much  about  poor  Belgium,  but  that  their 
plans    miscarried. 

If  Germany  had  started  the  war  she  would  have  been  perfectly 
justified,  even  to  frightfulness.  A  secret  combination  like  the  en- 
tente, menacing,  scheming,  threatening  around  any  country  would 
justify  war  of  the  most  ferocious  kind. 

The  assertion  of  world  dominion  on  the  part  of  Germany  is  only 
used  as  a  cloak  to  hide  the  sinister  aims  of  the  entente.  Middle- 
Europe  is  not  the  whole  world.  Germany  never  before  stole  any 
territory  that  was  not  German.  The  false  history  liar  cannot  prove 
that  Schleswig-Holstein  is  Danish  or  Alsace  and  Lorraine  hV^j^ich. 
Even  Kiau-Chou  was  only  leased.  Poland  was  given  to  her.^^fhe 
German  Army  was  not  used,  like  the  British  Navy,  for  annexing 
territories  to  obtain  taxpayers  to  the  British  treasury*^  If  there 
had  been  forming  an  entente  against  Great  Britain  or  the  United 
States^ihese  countries  would  not  have  waited  five  minutes  to  declare 
war.  Qiut  what  is  right  for  any  nation  apparently  is  not  right  for 
Germany^  What  about  Alsace  and  Lorraine?  Yes,  not  to  be  for- 
gotten. Cook  at  the  map  of  Elsass  and  Lothringen.  The  names  of 
the  landscape  there  since  Adam's  time  read  M'uehlhausen,  Pfaffen- 
heim,  Harmanns-Weilerkopf,  etc.  There  is  absolutely  no  mixture  of 
French  in  any  of  it.  The  language  of  the  populace  is  German.  Just 
because  the  French  stole  it  once,  they  are  entitled  to  it.  Just  be- 
cause a  few  soreheads  loudly,  and  mostly  for  the  sake  of  effect  to 
please  entente  tourists,  say  "My  language  is  German,  but  my  heart 
is  French,"  this  strip  of  German  territory  must  be  given  to  the 
French. 


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THE  FRENCH  IN  1870 

French  mlitarism  may  be  slightly  easier  than^russian  militarism, 
but  the  latter  is  an  outgrowth  of  the  former.  /France  and  England 
have  been  responsible  for  more  wars  than  any  other  nations.  Ger- 
many, being  centrally  located,  unfortunately  furnished  the  stamping 
grounc^  But  Germany  did  not  treat  France  right  in  1870'.  No!  France 
got  a  well-deserved  licking.  Just  as  any  country  that  willfully  starts 
a  war  without  cause,  such  as  Italy,  Roumania,  Portugal  or  even  Bel- 
gium, deserves  a  good  sound  licking.  You  need  not  quote  that  old  gag 
about  the  Ems  telegram.  If  there  were  a  thousands  Ems  telegrams 
suppressed,  it  would  not  clear  France  of  frivolously  starting  the  war 
of  1870.  You  may  shed  large  tears  over  the  rape  of  Roumania.  Well, 
did  that  country  have  a  semblance  of  cause  for  war,  or  was  it  not  just 
plain  sharing  in  the,  loot  the  entente  hoped  to  capture? 

What  an  innocent,  very  much  imposed  upon  nation  France  was. 
They  forgot  all  at  once  their  teeth-gnashing  and  shouting  for  revenge 
for  forty  years.  Germany  did  not^tack  where  the  fortified  French 
Army  was,  but  outwitted  them.  /Then  poor  France  was  attacke^,.,^ 
unprepared.  Armed  to  the  teeth  for  years,  they  were  outgeneraled^J 
This  called  for  a  terrible  amount  of  sympathy  all  over  the  world.  If 
ever  any  nation  earned  its  bread  by  the  sweat  of  its  brow,  it  was 
Germany.  As  Edison  said:  'T  saw  more  tall  chimneys  in  Germany 
than  any  part  of  the  world,  hardly  any  in  France."  If  France  had 
])een  a  country  of  labor  and  peace  like  Germany,  the  world  war  would 
not  have  happened.  But  they  always  hankered  after  loot  and  overran 
Europe  under  Napoleon.  History  tells  the  balance.  She  alone  is 
responsible  for  militarism.  Napoleon  spread  it  all  over  Europe.  Prus- 
sian militarism  is  not  the  only  kind.  Krupp's  works  in  Essen  are 
after  all  engaged  more  in  the  arts  of  peace  than  war.  For  the  last 
twenty  years  the  world  has  heard  only  the  song  of  the  French  75's  and 
their  superiority.  That  alone  shows  France  worked  for  war.  Unpre- 
pared? They  were  armed  to  the  teeth  and  trained  to  the  minute.  It 
hurt  their  feelings  that  they  could  not  overrun  Europe  as  in  Napo- 
leon's time;  they  wanted  freedom — to  rob  and  vandalize  at  leisure. 
But  there  was  that  odious  German  militarism.  Hence  the  necessity  for 
an  entente.  In  August,  1917,  Harper  Leach,  a  Germanophobe  scril)e, 
spread  the  cry:  "Germany  has  lied  about  her  census."'  Trying  lo 
excuse  the  failure  of  the  entente  in  1917  who,  had  they  known  the 
true  German  population,  perhaps  would  not  have  started  the   war. 


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MESSAGES 

In  September,  1918,  Prince  Lichnowsky  published  his  lies  thusly: 
"We  (Germany)  encouraged  Count  Berchthold  to  attack  Serbia,  al- 
though no  German  interest  was  involved,  and  the  danger  of  a  world 
war  must  have  been  known  to  us."  Liar'nowsky,  state  exactly  how 
Germany  encouraged  Count  Berchthold,  if  by  word,  letter  or  telegram, 
etc.  Germany  is  not  in  the  habit  of  meddling  in  other  people's  affairs, 
neither  in  English  or  American  style.  There  is  nothing  of  encourage- 
ment on  the  records.  Then,  again,  he  says:  "We  (Germany)  rejected 
the  British  proposals  of  mediation,  although  Serbia  under  Russian 
and  British  pressure  had  accepted  almost  the  whole  of  the  ultimatum." 
Exactly.  It  was  not  any  of  Great  Britain's  business  to  interfere  in 
strictly  Austrian  affairs,  even  if  Serbia  had  "almost"  accepted  the 
whole  of  the  ultimatum  and  Russia  was  already  marching.  British 
mediation  should  have  been  directed  to  Russia,  not  Germany.  Then, 
again,  this  liar  says:  "On  July  31,  1914,  we  (Germany)  declared  war 
against  the  Russians,  although  the  Czar  pledged  his  word  that  he  would 
not  permit  a  single  man  to  march  as  long  as  negotiations  were  going 
on."  There  were  no  negotiations  going  on,  according  to  the  records, 
not  on  July  31,  1914,  unless  in  Sir  Edward  Grey's  imagination.  Read 
the  records.  They  are  all  printed.  Russia  mobilizing  against  the 
Czar's  will,  the  Czar's  pledge  could  not  be  trusted.  An  army  mobil- 
ized is  an  army  ready  to  strike.  In  Europe  no  country  can  permit  an 
enemy  army  near  its  borders.  It  always  amounts  to  a  declaration  of 
war.  As  this  is  so,  Russia  insisted  on  war,  and  Germany  could  not  help 
herself.  Negotiations  are  at  an  end  when  arms  are  resorted  to.  If 
Russia  did  not  want  the  war,  why  did  she  not  countermand  the  mobili- 
zation? The  border  being  wide  and  open,  could  Germany  have  acted 
otherwise?  Put  yourself  into  Germany's  shoes  before  you  accuse 
Germany  of  starting  the  war,  but  entente  liars  do  not  want  to  do  that. 
If  the  entente  did  not  insist  on  war,  why  did  they  not  let  Russia  and 
Germany  fight  while  the  world  looked  on?  But  France  would  not  give 
any  guaranty  of  neutrality,  and  the  English  fleet  was  already  out  at 
sea. 


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RUSSIA  THE  AGGRESSOR 

While  the  London  daily  papers  of  July  31,  August  1st  and  August 
2d,  1914,  headed  their  papers  "The  Mad  Dog  of  Berlin  Is  at  Large," 
thus  craftily  diverting  the  world  opinion,  yet  this  lie  that  Germany 
started  the  war  is  also  traceable  to  a  German  traitor  and  sorehead, 
the  anonymous,  cowardly  author  of  the  book  "J'Accuse."  Of  course, 
lie  merely  accuses,  he  merely  exposes  the  amateurishness  of  the  Ger- 
man military  and  diplomatic  element,  and  proves  very  littie,  but  he 
furnished  the  seed  for  the  Anglo-Saxon  lies,  which  caused  Gemiany's 
downfall.  Ke-^ven  lies  and  says  Austria  mobilized  first  and  Russia 
afterwards./^ Russia  mobilized  the  districts  of  Odessa,  Kieff,  Moscow 
and  Kasan  TTTTjuly  28,  1914.  There  was  no  other  mobilization  by  any 
other  power  at  that  time.  The  Russian  general  mobilization  followed 
afterward.  This  general  mobilization,  wholly  unnecessary  and  uncalled 
for,  was  the  overt  act  which  precipitated  the  world  war.^     1 

On  November  25,  1918,  Count  Lerchenfeld's  reports  as  Bavarian 
minister  in  Berlin  were  published  in  Munich  to  spite  Prussia,  and 
hailed  in  London  as  showing  German  duplicity  at  the  start  of  the  war. 
According  to  the  report,  the  delivery  of  the  ultimatum  to  Serbia  was 
delayed  until  after  President  Poincare  and  Premier  Viviani  of  France 
had  gone  to  St.  Petersburg,  which  would  make  it  difficult  for  the 
entente  nations  to  arrive  at  an  understanding  and  take  countermeas- 
ures.  The  report  is  dated  July  14,  1914.  Now,  just  imagine  what  busi- 
ness Poincare  and  Viviani  had  in  far  St.  Petersburg  in  July,  1914,  v^dien 
the  British  fleet  from  all  parts  of  the  earth  was  assembled  and  in  the 
North  Sea,  nay  the  Baltic,  unless  to  see  that  everything  was  ready  in 
Russia  for  war,  and  that  there  should  be  no  bungling,  and  Bavarian 
stupidity  assumed  that  a  delay  in  the  ultimatum  would  make  it  diffi- 
cult for  the  entente.  Austria  no  doubt  hesitated  in  the  delivery  of  the 
ultimatum,  but  played  into  the  hands  of  the  entente  anyhow,  like  a 
bird  into  the  fangs  of  an  anaconda.  All  of  it  shows  the  superior 
craftiness  of  the  entente.  There  was  nothing  omitted  to  make  the 
attack  on  Germany  successful.  And  British  and  American  liars  will 
say,  3'es,  Germany  prepared  for  this  war  for  forty  years.  All  prepara- 
tions were  on  the  other  side. 


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CIRCUMSTANTIAL  EVIDENCE 

To  sum  up  this  circumstantial  evidence: 

Since  the  Algeciras  conference  in  1906  proved  that  Germany  had, 
with  the  exception  of  Austria,  no  friends;  even  the  United  States  siding 
against  her,  and  since  the  Panther  incident  in  1911  showed  the  entente 
meant  fight  under  the  slightest  or  any  pretext,  it  would  have  been 
reasonable  for  Germany  to  think  of  defending  herself.  The  first 
logical  thing  to  do  would  have  been  to  attack  the  British  Navy  and 
destroy  it.  This  should  have  been  done  by  halves  or  piece-meal,  since 
the  German  Navy  was  the  smaller  of  the  two.  This  would  have 
merely  repeated  the  act  of  Great  Britain,  when  she  destroyed  the 
Danish  Navy  in  1801,  because  Russia,  Denmark  and  Sweden  had 
formed  an  entente.  But  Germany  did  not  do  anything;  but  instead 
found  the  whole  British  Navy  assembled  in  the  North  Sea,  at  the 
beginning  of  June,  1914,  several  days  before  the  Sarajebo  murder. 
In  fact,  according  to  James  W.  Gerard,  British  dreadnoughts  were  in 
the  Kiel  harbor  when  the  Sarajebo  murder  was  announced.  Of  course, 
with  true  Anglo-Saxon  hypocrisy  the  British  came  as  friends.  Perhaps 
spying  to  be  able  to  take  Kiel  at  the  right  moment,  or  perhaps  Winston 
Spencer  Churchill  was  aiming  at  a  friendly  insult  like  the  sending  of 
the  Maine  to  Plavana,  or  attack  without  any  declaration  of  war,  a  la 
Nelson  at  Copenhagen.  They  had  not  thought  of  poor  Belgium  then, 
or  mayl)e  they  knew  that  the  entente  was  going  to  let  something- 
happen.  Germany  pocketed  the  insult  and  avoided  war  by  keeping  her 
fleet  under  the  heavy  guns  of  the  forts.  Then  the  fact  that  the 
French  President  Poincare  and  Premier  Viviani  hurried  to  Et.  Peters- 
burg at  about  the  same  time,  evidently  trying  to  let  Russia  do  the 
starting  of  the  war,  since  Russia  was  considered  the  stronger,  and 
thereby  keeping  the  Germans  out  of  France. 

The  above  shows  no  overt  acts  on  the  part  of  the  entente,  but — 
until  Russia  started  the  ball  rolling — a  concerted  war-like  attitude  con- 
cealed behind  a  consummate  craftiness  the  like  the  world  has  never 
seen.  Those  two  French  high  officials  could  have  stayed  at  home  and 
acted  their  foul  conspiracy  by  telegraph,  but  it  is  safe  to  say  that  no 
documents  in  writing  will  ever  be  found  implicating  the  entente.  It 
shows  likewise  that  France  was  schooled  in  Anglo-Saxon  hypocrisy,  to 
stay  within  her  borders  fully  armed,  waiting  to  be  attacked  while 
Russia  raked  the  chestnuts  out  of  the  fire.  The  whole  entente  policy 
was  a  policy  of  tigerish  waiting  and  stalking  their  prey.  Then  attack- 
ing in  regular,  prearranged  fashion.  First  Russia,  then  France,  then 
England,  Japan,  Italy,  and  little  coyote  states. 


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ENGLISH  AND  AMERICAN  PRESS  CRIMINALLY 
RESPONSIBLE 

The  above  shows  likewise  the  al^solute  peaceful  attitude  of  Ger- 
many before  Russia  attacked,  and  an  utter  want  of  comprehension  of 
the  evil  designs  of  the  entente  from  William  II  down  to  all  the  com- 
manders, and  also  the  German  press.  Then,  after  the  war  started, 
even  as  early  as  September,  1914,  after  one  month's  war,  Germany 
sought  peace  with  France  through  Take  Jonescu  of  Roumania,  only  to 
be  rejected.  For  the  eutente  were  after  loot,  and  now  openly  for 
Germany's  annihilation,  y  Let  no  fool  think  that  Germany  could  have 
m^^de  a  different  peace  from  what  she  got,  or  could  have  avoided  this 
warTJ  All  the  foregoing  facts  are  not  obtained  from  Berlin,  or  Pots- 
dam, or  the  Kaiser's  secret  portfolio  or  dished  out  by  a  German 
traito-,  but  are  solely  taken  from  the  English  and  American  press 
from  July,  1914,  to  December,  1918,j^'id  out  of  their  own  mouths  they 
(the  latter)  prove  themselves  the  most  predatory,  cold-blooded  and 
bloodthirsty  liars  and  criminal  truth-suppressors  the  human  race  was 
ever  afflicted  witlTT} 

The  six  million  dead  of  the  world  war  are  on  the  few  heads  of  the 
robber-entente  and  the  enslavement  of  toiling  Germany  is  due  to  the 
lying  scribes  and  pharisees  of  England  and  America.  These  cannot 
plead  ignorance,  for  their  own  papers  will  convict  them. 

"Murder  will  out.  It  seems  now,  according  to  R.  C.  Dasher,  in 
Dearborn  Independent  for  October  2nd,  1920,  and  reprinted  in  Lafol- 
lette's  Magazine  for  October,  1920,  a  secret  conference  of  newspaper 
men,  bankers  and  British  agents  was  held  in  Washington  in  15'15,  to 
bunco  the  United  States  into  the  world  war  on  the  entente  side.  Forty 
million  dollars  blood  money  was  offered  as  a  bribe  by  the  entente." 

Since  the  above  was  written,  Premier  Viviani  declared  on  January 
31,  1919,  in  the  Chaml^er  of  Deputies  in  Paris,  France,  "that  on  July 
30,  1914,  the  French  Army  was  ordered  to  retire  eight  or  ten  kilo- 
meters from  the  German  frontier,  having  heard  that  the  German 
troops   were  moving  toward   it." 

Now,  German  troops  were  notmobilized  until  August  1st,  1914, 
after  Russia  refused  to  demobilize.  Evidently  the  traps  were  all  laid 
before  Germany  had  thought  of  mobilizing,  and  the  French  were  ready 
two  days  before.  Schooled  in  Anglo-Saxon  hypocrisy,  thinking  to  let 
Germany  start  the  war. 

The  same  frog-eater,  Viviani,  on  the  same  occasion  commits  him- 
self still  further,  and  says  that  the  abandonment  of  the  Briey  Valley 
had  been  decided  on  by  the  General  (French)  Staff  in  January,  1914. 
So  the  French  were  actually  getting  ready  in  January,  1914,  six 
months  before  the  war.     Clearing  the  decks  for  action. 

All  this  was  printed  in  American  newspapers  under  date  of  Feb- 
ruary 1st,   1919. 


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BRITISH  WHITEWASH 

In  February,  1919,  while  the  land  and  gold-hungry  peace  conclave 
was  wrangling  in  Versailles,  Professor  Charles  W.  C.  Oman,  falsifier 
of  history  at  the  Oxford  University,  with  the  collaboration  of  A.  J. 
Balfour  and  Earl  Curzon,  issued  a  book  (the  book  may  have  been  sup- 
pressed) to  whitewash  England.  The  whitewash  of  course  does  not 
stick  very  well,  but  this  scribe  mentions  a  telegram  in  the  West  minster 
Gazette  on  August  1st,  1914,  dated  Berlin,  July  30,  1914,  by  von 
Bethman-Hollweg  to  the  German  Ambassador  in  Vienna,  saying:  "We 
must  refuse  to  be  drawn  into  a  world  conflagration  through  Austria- 
Hungary  not  respecting  our  advice."  Professor  Oman  could  not  get 
around  this  telegram  contradicting  the  lies  of  Lichnowsky  and  the 
whole  British  press  at  that  time,  so  he  calls  it  "a  journalistic  mystery." 
The  same  British  history  twister  quotes  likewise  the  British  Ambassa- 
dor at  Petrograd,  saying:  "The  military  authorities  (in  Russia)  did 
make  secret  preparations  for  a  general  mobilization  without  the 
knowledge  of  the  Czar,  although  General  Soukhomlinoff  (lyingly) 
denied  this."  This  is  British  testimony,  but  in  true  Anglo-Saxon 
dup  icitv  this  professor  further  says:  "This  general  mobilization  was 
justified  because  a  few  hours  later  it  became  clear  that  Germany  was 
bent  on  war."  Accent  on  "a  few  hours  later."  Could  anybody  put  the 
cart  before  the  horse  any  neater  or  change  the  effect  for  the  cause  any 
better?  On  July  22,  1919,  Baboon  Clemenceau,  in  the  Chamber  of 
Deputies,  delivers  himself  thusly:  "You  wanted  me  to  make  war.  I 
have  made  war.  You  wished  me  to  make  peace.  I  have  made  peace 
and  gave  France  more  than  it  hoped  for." 

AS  TO  GERMANY'S  MORAL  GUILT  OF  THE  WAR 

If  Germany  is  guilty  of  keeping  a  scarecrow  within  her  borders  in 
the  person  of  Emperor  William  II  to  keep  off  entente  assassins,  she 
had  a  perfect  right  to  do  so.  If  that  scarecrow  called  itself  a  supreme 
war  lord,  when  that  war  lord  was  woefully  short  of  war  knowledge, 
and  as  inquiry  shows,  very  anxious  for  peace,  Germany's  accusers  are 
subjects  of  hysterics  and  needless  alarm.  If  the  scarecrow  acted  a*  a 
nightmare  on  them,  and  sober  second  thought  will  show  thatCthc 
entente  started  the  war  for  loot  or,  as  American  polite  language  puts 

it,  for  economic  reasons^^ There  were  no  high  ideals  as  an  incentive, 

but  the  lowest  of  passiorTs/v 

The  Beast  of  Berlin,  as  ignorant  and  savage  Americans  have  called 
William  II,  was  very  ambitious  to  shine  in  literature,  art  and  music. 
His  only  c:'ime  is  mediocrity  and  incapacity  to  cope  with  the  interna- 
tional bandits.  All  his  councillors  and  advisers  were  of  the  same 
caliber,  totally  unable  to  comprehend  the  conspiracy  openly  hatched  at 
Algeciras  in  1906.  The  German  people  did  not  refute  the  accusations 
of  their  lying  enemies  because  they  did  not  nkow  how  they  stood 
To  them  (the  German  people)  the  war  came  like  a  thunderbolt  out  of 
a  blue  sky.  Defense  is  all  they  knew,  and  the  scarecrow  was  no  match 
for  a  world  of  liars.  At  least  he  never  opened  his  mouth  in  defense. 
And  he  well  might  have  nailed  a  proclamation  to  the  intellectual  ver- 
min of  the  earth  on  the  gates  of  Europe,  saying  that  Germany  by 
nature  is  no  disturber,  no  conqueror,  as  others  are;  that  Kaisers  and 
Czars  are  a  necessity  to  the  poor  sapheads  making  up  the  proletariat 
in  Europe;  that  hate,  whether  international  or  interstate,  leads  only 
to  more  hate,  and  not  to  construction,  but  destruction;  that  the  blood 
of  he  dead  and  dying  in  this  war  would  not  be  on  the  crovv^ned  heads, 
but  on  the  intellectual  saj^heads.  But^  he  did  nothing  to  this  day. 
German   Socialists  tried  liard   to  prove   Germany  guilty,   Imt   failed. 


BRITISH  VIOLATE  INTERNATIONAL  LAW  FIRST 

The  world  war  having  been  duly  launched  by  the  entente,  England 
promptly  violated  international  law  by  using  dum-dum  bullets,  of 
which  there  was  ample  proof.  The  next  program  was  to  set  aside  the 
declaration  of  London,  which  limits  a  blockade  to  the  belligerents  only, 
and  does  not  include  a  blockade  on  neutrals,  thereby  intensifying  the 
war  on  the  civilian  population  of  Germany  and  incidentally  rifling- 
neutral  mail.  By  violating  intermitional  law,  the  starving  of  women 
and  children  was  made  possible.  ;JVote  especially  the  war  oiw:hildren. 
The  first  baby-killers  were  the  British  on  a  wholesale  scale^  While 
the  Germans  in  1870  bombarded  fortified  Paris  and  the  Boers  later 
Ladysmith,  the  world  never  before  saw  such  a  monstrous  attempt  of 
murder  of  non-combatants,  (j^nfant  mortality  in  Berlin  and  other  large 
cities,  on  account  of  malnutrition  of  mothers  and  scarcity  of  milk, 
mounted  into  tens  of  thousands.  Not  to  say  anything  of.  the  evil 
effects  of  such  enforced  famine  for  the  next  generationT~7  In  the  Kai- 
serin  Augusta  Victoria  Hospital  in  Berlin,  1916,  accordiit§  to  the  head 
physician,  80,000  children  died  from  lacJi-of  food.  Germany  was  forced 
to  reprisals.  What  could  she  do?  (Bombing  British  cities  was  her 
only  chance.  But  when  the  first  bombs  laid  buildings  in  England  wide 
open,  oh,  what  a  howl  went  up  about  the  German  brutes  violating 
international  law  and  decency.  .The  howl  went  around  the  world.  It 
was  largely  echoed  in  AmericaT^  "^ot  a  word  of  enlightenment  on 
reprisals  came  from  the  German  high  command  or  from  the  German 
press.  German  stupidity  supposed  the  world  would  have  sense  enough 
to  see  the  justness  of  their  course  and  the  justness  of  their  cause. 
The  British  blockade  was  on  and  Germany  should  have  submitted. 

The  German  fleet  having  been  undergunned,  i.  e.,  where  there 
should  have  been  14-inch  guns  there  were  only  11-inch  pieces  on  the 
German  dreadnoughts,  being  built  on  the  erroneous  idea  the  lighter 
the  gun  the  faster  the  firing  speed,  the  battle  of  Jutland  proved  the 
uselessness  of  employing  the  German  navy,  and  the  German  admiralty 
took  to  submarines  as  a  last  naval  resort  to  counteract  the  blockade. 

CJThe  submarine  is  a  legal  naval  weapon.  It  will  never  be  abolished. 
There  is  no  international  law  on  the  submarine.  Great  Britain  forgot 
to  make  one.  The  submarine  is  the  weapon  of  the  small  nation. 
Always  will  be.  The  law  of  piracy  does  not  apply  to  submarines.  The 
sinking  of  merchantment  by  submarines  without  warning  is  neces- 
sar}^  when  the  former  are  armed.  You  cannot  monkey  iji__wartime 
If  you  do  not  get  your  adversary,  your  adversary  gets  you 


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"OUR  RIGHTS"  AND  SUBMARINES 

The  armed  merchant  ship  is  a  warship  even  to  a  limited  extent. 
It  don't  take  any  supreme  judge  to  decide  that.  The  sinking-  of  un- 
armed merchantmen  is  likewise  excusable  as  a  reprisal  for  England's 
war  on  non-combatants  through  making  the  declaration  of  London 
a  scrap  of  paper.  So-called  neutral  countries  supplied  the  entente 
and  refused  to  supply  Germany.  Germany  claimed  that  such  ships 
were  not  neutral  and  their  merchandise  contraband  and  proceeded  to 
sink  them.  Holland,  Denmark,  Sweden,  Norway  and  Spain  did  not 
protest  this  very  loudly.  But  America  raised  a  howl  of  ,^acy,  out- 
lawry, brutality  and  inhumanity  in  the  press  and  officially.^^Murdering 
non-combatants  in  German}^  by  degrees  was  perfectly  correct,  fur- 
nishing powder  and  lead  for  Germany's  annihilation  to  the  entente 
perfectly  legal  and  moraUj  JVesident  Wilson  being  asked  early  in  the 
war  for  an  embargo  on  am-munition  and  foodstuffs  from  America  for 
the  sake  of  fair  play  replied:  "We  would  be  extremely  un-neutral." 
He  was  probably  right,  according  to  British-made  international  law, 
which  favors  only  those  countries  with  large  navies.  Perhaps  he  was 
thinking  then  how  he  might  take  away  the  sugar  bowl  and  meat  from 
the  American  family  to  feed  the  robber-entente.  Little  did  Germany 
say  that  he  was  assisting  in  slow  murder  and  starvation  of  a  hard- 
working and  inoffensive  people  in  Germany,  who  were  attacked  Ijy  the 
ruffians  of  the  earth.  "Our  rights,"  said  Wilson,  as  the  contraband 
freight  sailed  to  destroy  the  most  peaceful  people  in  the  world.  The 
rights  of  the  vulture  to  gormandize  on  disaster.  The  rights  of  the 
hyena  to  disembowel  the  bodies  of  honest  working  men  fallen  in  self- 
defense  and  in  view  of  the  wan  cheeks  of  millions  of  her  widows  and 
orphans,  Germany  must  not  sink  a  British  Lusitania  loaded  with 
6,000,000  rounds  of  ammunition.  Must  not  drown  the  miserable  brood 
that  wear  the  white  necktie  of  the  christian,  gleefully  aiding  in  whole- 
sale murder  of  non-combatants. 

The  United  States  in  the  world  conflict  were  never  neutral.  A 
venomous,  unbridled  press  took  early  sides  with  the  robber-entente  and 
vile  epithets  against  everything  German  were  the  rule.  Samuel 
Gompers,  a  Jew%  a  labor  leader,  although  he  probably  never  did  a  lick 
of  work  in  his  life,  and  Theodore  Roosevelt,  ex-President,  imperialist 
and  barbarian,  were  the  vicious  mouthpieces  ranting  against  Germany. 
While  among  the  Germanophobes  appear  such  names  as:  Ochs,  Acker- 
man,  Morgenthau,  Rosenwald,  Kahn,  mostly  of  the  tribe  of  Judas 
Tscariot,   the  greatest  venom  is   traceable  to  the   English-American   in 


THE  ENGLISH  SPARROW  IN  THE  AMERICAN  PRESS 

the  press.  This  hyphenated  individual  called  itself  "American''  and 
like  the  English  sparrow  driving  away  all  native,  useful  birds,  soon 
had  the  German-American  silenced  or  in  jail.  IJ^o  be  pro-German  was 
made  a  sin  early  in  the  war  and  later  a  penitentiary  offense^  A 
great  competition  of  lying  between  the  allied  European  and  American 
press  started.  Lies  like  "Germany  started  the  war,"  "Germany  wants 
to  conquer  the  world,"  "Germany  respects  no  treaty,"  "The  Rape  of 
P.elgiunjiy  stuck  and  probably  never  will  be  eradicated.  No  lecturer 
could  attempt  to  speak  against  these  lies;  he  was  promptly  howled 
down. 


—14— 


UNCLE  SAM  WOULD  NOT  ROB  THE  PAUPERS  OF 

EUROPE 

Whether  coached  by  the  entente  o"  conscious  that  a  l:)ig'  piece  of 
world  robbery  was  planned,  the  American  newspaper  scribes  recog- 
nized at  once  that  the  robber-entente  must  not  l)e  found  out  and  all 
real  facts  on  the  war  suppressed,  and  almost  succeeded  in  proving  the 
victim  to  be  the  robber. 

Barbarous  and  savage  patriotism  was  worked  as  the  handy  tool. 
Loyalty  made  an  excuse  for  the  foulest  crime.  Germans  in  America 
became  alarmed  at  the  increasing  lies  and  attempts  were  made  to 
counteract  them  by  literature,  preaching,  etc.  No  doubt  some  German 
money  was  spent  to  prevent  a  rupture.  Read  this:  "  i'o  prevent  a 
rupture,''  not  to  injure  the  U.  S.  But  all  in  vain.  The  English- 
American  was  supreme.  Take  notice,  ye  people  of  the  eart'i,  this 
vile  English  biped  could  make  ninety  millions  o"  pjop.e  n  :  ami 
kill  the  truth  in  a  so-called  free  country,  where  free  spcc''!.  >va^ 
granted  by  a  constitution. 

Yet  the  people  in  the  U.  S.  did  not  want  to  join  the  world  war. 
The  whole  west  said  plainly  the  Americans  on  the  Lusitania  had  no 
business  on  a  I'ritish  ship  in  wartime  carrying  ammunition.  Wilson 
was  elected  President  for  a  second  term  because  he  seemed  to  l)e  mo^t 
likely  able  to  keep  his  country  out  of  the  war.  Alas!  He  headed 
right  for  it  as  soon  as  elected.  War  was  declared  in  April,  1917,  just 
as  Russia  signed  the  armistice.  The  entente  was  dumfounded.  Could 
not  believe  any  nation  would  want  to  join  the  slaughter.  They  came 
the  question,  what  loot  would  America  want?  But  Wilson  soon  ex- 
plained that  America  wanted  nothing  out  of  this  war,  intimating  that 
Uncle  Sam  was  above  robbing  the  paupers  of  Europe — no,  he  would 
not  rob  a  blind  man  to  make  a  few  more  millions — but  would  furnish 
good  American  money  to  make  the  progrom  successful.  This  was  new 
music  in  the  diplomatic  rogue's  gallery  of  Europe.  Germany  must 
be  guilty  of  something  if  such  a  lofty  man  is  willing  to  make  such 
sacrifices  for  the  bandit's  cause.  In  the  alisence  of  a  cause  it  was 
changed  from  humanity  to  democracy.  Should  have  been  to  assist 
British  rapacity.  Think  of  the  German  women  and  children  sufferin-Ji; 
the  inhumanity  of  a  slow  death,  think  of  a  brave  people,  who  hitherto 
had  earned  their  l:»read  by  the  sweat  of  their  brows,  fought  off  the 
robber-entente  for  almost  three  years,  and  here  comes  the  mighty  U.  S. 
to  help  the  robbers  and  finish  the  poor  and  honest  victim.  Prussian 
militarism  must  be  crushed.  Prussian  militarism  v/hich  was  so  ignor- 
ant as  to  botch  up  the  German  fleet,  laid  out  the  war  plans  for  Paris 
instead  of  Calais  or  the  coast,  employed  old  fogeys  for  Generals,  and 
neglected  to  anihilate  the  British  fleet  in  the  harbor  of  Kiel  with  sul)- 
marines,  Prussian  militarism  that  put  up  with  every  insult  from 
America  in  the  Venezuela  affair  so  that  von  Holleben  died  of  chagrin 
and  a  broken  heart,  it  certainly  might  be  abolished.  But  why  murder 
thousands  of  good  Americans  and  Germans  for  a  purpose  that  would 
abolish  itself.  It  was  like  killing  a  fly  on  the  brow  of  a  friend  with 
a  thousand-pound  club.  The  newspapers,  Wall  Street,  a  few  represen- 
tatives and  President  Wilson  are  -esponsible  for  the  U.  S.  joining  the 
international  bandits  called  the  entente  to  rob  Germany.  Wilson,  like 
most  Americans,  ignorant  of  the  true  history,  firmly  believed  Germany 
had  stolen  Alsace  and  Lorraine  from  France  and  was  going  to  steal 
more.  Wall  Street  had  he"  eyes  on  the  German  ships  in  harbor,  the 
New  England  States  wanted  to  swipe  German  patents  -a«d  trade 
secrets.  The  motives  of  the  war  were  the  most  sordid.  (JThe  high 
ideals  of  liberty,  fairness  and  justice  were  plainly  oiily_^  to  deceive 
the  American  people-  and  help  King  George  of  Englancr"! 

—15—  -^ 


It  has  been  said  before,  the  world  is  governed  by  very  little  sense. 
The  fool  public  with  the  English  sparrow  shrieking  its  mightiest, 
were  helpless.  "I  am  American,"  shrieks  the  English  sparrow,  and 
woe  unto  him  who  doe  snot  shriek  American.  It  looked  like  precon- 
certed action  the  way  the  vile  press  defended  the  entente.  The  least 
look  or  word  against  it  was  giving  comfort  to  the  enemy.  Note  that 
down,  ye  Maximillian  Hardens  and  German  socialists  who  rant  con- 
tinuously and  openly  against  the  German  Government  during  the  war. 
"Giving  comfort  to  the  enemy"  was  in  this  democratic  country  a  peni- 
tentiary offense.  Free  speech  was  promptly  anihilated,  more  effec- 
tive than  the  worst  Prussian  militarism  ever  could  hope. 

ROBERT  M.  LA  FOLETTE 

Robert  M.  LaFolette,  senator  from  Wisconsin,  a  most  able  Amer- 
ican, of  the  type  of  Thomas  Paine.  Benj.  Franklin  and  the  early  type 
of  Americans  now  extinct,  of  excellent  presidential  timber,  a  man  who 
recognized  the  truth  and  the  facts  in  the  world  war  and  who  had  the 
backbone  to  express  his  convictions,  was  howled  down  and  effectively 
silenced.  This  is  one  of  the  darkest  pages  of  American  congressional 
history.  The  vile  American  Press  refused  to  print  Senato"  LaFolette's 
speech  in  Congress  against  the  war  begining  of  April,  1917,  by  far 
the  most  able  document  in  existence  on  the  war  in  America.  Yes, 
says  Secretary  David  F.  Houston,  what  would  Thotnas  Jefferson, 
Andrew  Jackson  and  George  Washington  have  done?  They  would 
promptly  have  sided  with  LaFolette  and  not  spent  the  Ame"ican  peo- 
ple's blood  and  money  in  a  European  muddle  started  for  robl:»ery  and 
Germany's  anihilation.  America's  great  would  never  have  joined  in 
a  vile  "pogrom"  to  enslave  laboring  people,  to  put  the  world  back  a 
hundred  years. 

When  war  was  declared  on  April  6,  1917,  the  United  States  were 
practically  put  under  martial  law,  at  least  some  civil  rights  were 
denied.  The  first  thing  done  was  to  instruct  the  press  to  coerce  the 
people  to  support  the  war.  Everybody  not  supporting  the  war  to  be 
called  a  traitor.  Soon  thousands  of  secret  service  men  sprang  up  like 
from  the  ground,  scoured  the  woods  and  prairies  for  "slackers"  and 
disloyal  ones  like  the  Cossacks  in  Russia  under  the  Czar  by  night  and 
day.  The  spy-crazy  French  had  nothing  on  the  American.  Search 
for  spies  was  advocated  in  every  newspaper.  Hanging  and  lynching 
openly  advocated.  Get-man  atrocity  lies  were  worked  to  the  limit. 
Four-minutes  liars  bawled  in  theaters  and  on  street  corners  on  week- 
days and  pulpit  liars  in  the  churches  on  Sundays, 

Soon  uprisings  followed  by  the  now  war-crazy  populace.  School 
girls  in  one  place  whipped  another  school  girl  for  disloyal  remarks. 
One  teacher  was  dismissed  for  saying  the  war  would  end  soon.  Whip- 
pings happened  in  Atkins,  Ark.  Tarring  and  feathering  in  Vicksburg, 
Miss.,  Oklahoma,  etc.  Otto  Prager  was  murdered  shamefully  in  Col- 
linsville,  111.,  without  even  being  proved  disloyal;  the  jury  acquitted 
the  murderers.  Hestep  Ivanoff  and  Joe  Spring  were  murdered  in 
Tulsa,  Okla.,  as  pro-Germans.  Frederick  Wagner,  a  German  farmer 
living  near  Hot  Springs,  Ark.,  was  ambushed  and  killed  while  working 
in  the  field  with  his  six  children  for  making  mild  pro-German  re- 
marks. 

In  this  campaign  of  lying,  without  parallel  in  history,  instigated 
only  to  hide  the  criminals  propagating  the  war  and  give  vent  to  tlie 
unbridled  race-hatred,  Germany  was  accused  of  almost  anything  from 
causing  cyclones  in  Kansas  to  starting  revolutions  in  Mexico,  origi- 
nating Spanish  influenza,  or  starting  forest  fires  in  Minnesota,  firing 
ammuntion  dumps  or  giving  the  baby  the  measles. 

—16— 


SAMPLES  OF  ATROCITY  LIES 

While  it  is  too  great  a  task  to  brand  all  the  war  liars  and  mouth 
fighters  separately,  some  certainly  ought  to  be  handed  over  to  pos- 
terity, incidentally  with  the  sincere  hope  of  civilizing  the  American 
Press.  And  of  all  the  abominable  liars  of  German  atrocities,  Rev. 
Dr.  New^ell  Dw^ight  Hillis  takes  the  lead.  He  says  in  one  of  his  lec- 
tures delivered  about  April  18,  1518,  in  the  U.  S.:  "In  Belgium  a 
German  officer  bayonetted  a  little  two-year-old  girl  with  her  blood 
st"eaming  down  over  his  shoulders,  he  marched  through  the  ruined 
city."  Liar  Hiljis,  let  me  tell  you  that  German  officers  do  not  carry 
bayonets  or  rifles — it  is  against  their  caste — but  swords  and  auto- 
matic pistols;  their  uniforms  are  kept  scrupulously  clean  to  keep  the 
respect  of  their  men.  Blood  trickling  down  the  said  officer's  neck 
for  the  said  officer's  amusement  is  too  crazy.  Besides,  no  soldier 
marchig,  w^eary  and  tired,  enjoys  to  carry  any  extra  load,  not  even 
a  Belgian  baby  on  a  spear  through  a  town.  You  lie  about  German 
soldiers  cutting  off  women's  breasts  to  keep  other  soldiers  from  ap- 
proaching them  is  equally  crazy.  The  German  is  not  French,  English 
or  American.  xVor  is  he  shot  for  contracting  disease.  Another  lie 
comes  through  Dr.  Sherman  Davis  of  the  Indiana  University  as  quoted 
in  the  Dallas  (Tex.)  Dispatch  of  March  18,  1918.  He  says:  "A  young 
girl  came  to  my  office  at  Blooming,  Ind.,  recently  in  great  distress. 
She  said  that  her  brother,  a  student  in  Berlin,  had  written  her  some 
time  ago  that  he  saw  the  Kaiser  every  day.  And  she,  realizing  the 
danger  of  the  letter,  had  written  back:  "If  you  see  the  Kaiser  every 
day,  why  don't  you  do  something?"  The  girl  said  she  had  not 
heard  from  her  brother  after  that,  until  the  day  she  was  talking  to  me. 
That  morning  she  had  received  from  Germany  a  box  containing  her 
brother's  two  eyes."  Now  liar  Davis,  let  me  ask  you:  this  little  episode 
happened  no  doubt  during  the  war.  The  Kaiser  traveling  from 
Potsdam  to  Kovno  one  day,  Brussells  or  St.  Quentin  the  next  day,  the 
girl's  brother  being  in  Berlin,  how  could  he  see  the  Kaiser  every  day? 
If  he  was  interned,  as  he  should  have  been,  he  could  not  have  seen  the 
Kaiser  at  all.  If  this  happened  before  the  entrance  of  America  into 
the  war,  the  girl's  question,  "why  don't  you  do  something?"  would 
have  been  ignored  by  any  German  censor.  If  this  happened  after  the 
American  declaration  of  war  then  no  correspondence  or  package  de- 
livery was  possible.  Besides,  malefactors  in  Germany  are  punished 
by  due  process  of  law.  Gouging  out  eyes  and  shipping  them  off  as 
souvenirs  is  not  practiced.  Your  lying  will  have  to  be  improved,  even 
if  the  great  American  public  believes  all  you  say. 


Another  couple  of  lie  spreaders  to  be  put  on  record  is  George 
Randolph  Chester  and  Lillian  Chester,  copyrighted,  1918,  dated  Paris, 
Pel).  23,  1918,  who  write  thusly:  "Andre  Fuelot  has  a  l:)rother, 
Michel,  who  was  a  prisoner  of  the  Germans  and  who  escaped  *  *  * 
who  cannot  tell  about  the  hideous  permanent  injuries  he  received 
or  unbelievably  inhuman  treatment  which  he  endured,  because  his 
tongue  was  cut  out.  They  did  this  to  him  because  he  asked  for  a 
driiik  of  water  in  French  in  place  of  German." 

This  is  a  coarse  hearsay  lie  sprung  from  ignorance.  The  common 
German — unlike  the  American  or  British — respects  a  foreign  tongue 
and  prides  himself  on  knowing  French;  for  the  officers  it  is  compul- 
sory to  know  French,  to  bother  about  cutting  a  Frenchman's  tongue 
out,  when  with  greater  ease  you  might  cut  his  head  off  is  a  French 
notion  of  knife-revenge.  It  is  too  un-German  to  stand  the  light  of 
day. 

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ATROCITY  LIES— (Continued) 

Still  another  liar,  though  not  a  scribe,  is  Capt.  E.  H.  Saer  of  the 
Canadian  Field  Artillery,  who  lectured  throughout  the  U.  S.,  who 
stated  publicly  in  Dallas,  Texas,  on  October  9,  1917:  "When  I  got  to 
Paris  I  was  taken  into  a  tall  building  and  entered  a  certain  room, 
in  which  were  40  or  50  babies.  They  were  pretty  little  chaps,  brown 
eyed  and  curly  haired,  but  suddenly  I  noticed  that  something  was 
wrong.  Ladies  and  gentlemen,  none  of  those  little  tots  had  hands. 
It  was  the  work  of  the  German  soldiers."  Now  this  is  the  same  lie 
about  entente  children's  hands  being  chopped  off  that  started  in  Bel- 
gium. Some  hands  chopped  off  were  only  right  hands,  others  were 
totally  chopped  off  and  others  hung  only  by  a  string.  The  Brycc 
commission  conceals  some  likewise.  Now  liar  Saer,  if  these  children 
were  in  a  tall  building  in  Paris,  France,  why  not  name  the  building? 
No  doubt  it  was  a  public  building  and  as  in  New  York,  these  are  all 
known,  or  can  be  identified.  It  is  strange  that  the  French  never  said 
anything  about  these  40  or  50  ail  babies;  they  would  have  raised  a 
howl  that  could  be  heard  from  Dan  to  Bershaba.  Did  the  Germans 
have  a  regular  French  baby  round-up,  for  in  Belgium  the  lia-s  men- 
tioned them  only  in  ones  and  twos.  Oh,  that  the  German  soldiers 
who  whittled  wooden  toys  for  the  enemy  children  in  the  trenches, 
while  their  own  tried  to  keep  alive  on  potato  peelings,  sawdust  and 
glue,  could  have  known  of  these  lies  in  battle. 

Not  to  be  outdone  by  other  liars,  the  Dallas  (Texas)  Dispatch  on 
Aug.  3,  1918,  prints  a  new  and  true  atrocity  story  and  says:  "In  the 
first  months  after  the  Germans  took  possession  of  northern  France, 
a,  group  of  little  children  were  playing  in  the  streets.  The  hun  fiends 
threw  some  bundles  wrapped  like  toys  among  them.  The  playthings 
were  bombs  which  exploded  as  the  children,  laughing,  snatched  at 
them.  Some  of  the  les  petites  were  killed,  and  those  that  lived  never 
will  play  with  toys  again,  for  they  have  no  hands."  Sounds  like  a 
fourth  of  July  story  in  the  U.  S.  If  it  actually  happened,  probably 
those  bombs  were  fulminate  caps  swiped.  For  no  soldier  is  going  to 
make  little  play-bombs  to  cripple  children.  The  factory  is  always  miles 
away. 

A  third-rate  liar  is  Brownlee  B.  Gould,  probably  from  Plymouth, 
Mass.,  driving  an  ambulance  near  Rheims,  states  through  the  Associ- 
nted  Fress  bept.  3.  1917:  "German  airmen  flying  by  night  over  a 
French  town  near  Rheims  dropped  poisonous  candy  causing  the  death 
of  many  children."  The  poisoned  candy  lie  is  an  oft  repeated  one. 
This  one  happened  in  the  darkness  of  the  night.  Grownups  did  not 
sample  the  candy.  It  would  not  have  sounded  right,  therefore,  children 
only — in  an  unnamed  town. 

When  the  people  in  the  U.  S.  through  receiving  the  daily  German 
atrocity  lies,  became  really  war-craz-y,  they  began  in  numerous  places 
to  taste  ground  glass  in  their  food.  Of  course  it  was  Germans  in  the 
U.  S.  grinding  up  old  bottles  and  putting  glass  in  the  food.  Not  one 
case  was  proved,  but  many  a  butcher,  cook  and  baker  kept  the  dust- 
pan away  from  the  eats,  and  lying  served  at  least  this  one  good  pur- 
pose— cleanliness. 

Ferdinand  Gueldry,  a  Frenchman,  is  a  canvas  liar.  He  painted 
several  artocity  pictures,  one  of  which  represents  three  nude  women 
transfixed  on  bayonets  planted  in  the  ground.  Painted  from  reports 
of  German  atrocities  at  Neuvy  I'Abessc,  Sept.  7,  1914,  especially  for 
the  French  government,  exhibited  by  Col.  Cornelius  Vanderbilt  at  677 

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ATROCITY  LIES— (Continued) 

Fifth  Avenue,  New  York.  If  there  was  a  grain  of  truth  in  this  a 
photograph  would  have  been  the  proper  thing.  Although  you  can  lie 
even   with   a   camera. 

A  clumsy  liar  is  Joseph  T.  Buddelle  steering  Madame  C.  Guerrin 
and  Robert  Arbour  for  war  propaganda  through  the  U.  S.  He  says  : 
"Germans  are  innoculating  French  prisoners  with  tuberculosis  serum." 
The  French  prisoners  in  Germany,  unlike  the  British,  made  good 
workmen  and  helped  considerably  to  raise  something  to  eat.  The 
German  women  treated  them  well,  even  so  that  a  good  many  women 
had   to   be   restrained   and   fined. 

The  bulk  of  the  lying  seems  to  be  confined  to  the  western  front, 
where  an  unlimited  amount  was  demanded  by  the  English  and  Amer- 
ican press  to  paint  Germany  black,  so  that  the  entente  should  loom 
up  white. 

Yet  about  July  10,  1918,  General  Pershing  sent  a  cablegram  to 
Washington  that  the  statements  of  an  unnamed  sergeant  of  the 
American  Expeditionary  forces,  printed  in  a  vSt.  Louis  newspaper, 
were  without  foundation  whatever,  based  on  any  experiences  the 
Americans  have  had,  and  the  statements  of  this  lying  sergeant,  ac- 
cording to   General   Pershing,  were   as   follows  : 

"That  the  Germans  give  poisoned  candy  to  the  children'  to  cat 
and  hand  grenades  for  them  to  play  with.  They  show  glee  at  the 
children's  dying  writhings  and  laugh  aloud  when  the  grenades  ex- 
plode. I  saw  an  American  boy  17  years  old,  who  had  been  captured 
by  the  Germans,  come  back  to  our  trenches.  He  had  cotton  in  and 
about  his  ears.  I  asked  some  one  what  the  cotton  was  for.  The 
Germans  cut  off  his  ears  and  sent  him  back  to  tell  us  they  want 
to  fight  men.  They  feed  Americans  tuberculosis  germs."  This  is 
repeated  in  the  Dallas,  Tex.,  News  of  Jul  yll,  1918. 

According  to  General  Pershing's  order  the  above  sargeant  was 
to  be  returned  immediately  to  France  if  quoted  correctly.  But  the 
whole  looks  like  a  rehash  of  the  standing  lies  with  variations  on  the 
part  of  the   lying   scribe. 

Not  daunted  in  the  least  by  General  Pershing's  correction.  Dr. 
P.  H.  Howard,  member  of  the  St.  Louis  Chamber  of  Commerce,  who 
had  just  returned  from  the  front,  reports  Sergeant  A.  B.  Cole,  of 
East  Liverpool,  Ohio,  crucified  to  the  door  of  an  old  building  and 
discovered  after  a  battle  by  A.  C.  Cole,  a  private  in  the  same  company. 
This  is  dated  New  York,  Aug.  25,  1918.  There  is  no  official  report 
on  this  from  General  Pershing  to  date  and  never  will  be,  Kansas 
City,  Mo.,  papers  on  Aug.  24,  1918,  quite  unmindful  of  General  Per- 
shing's announcement,  printed  post  card  photographs  of  dead  children 
with  their  hearts  cut  out  by  the  Germans.  Of  course  they  were  fake 
photographs  made  upon  the  request  of  the  English  and  American 
press'  These  were  furnished  by  Sergeant  Claude  Cox,  13th  Railway 
luigineers,  who  no  doubt  brought  them  ready  made  in  France. 

When  the  French  found  out  that  lying  pays  or  at  the  instigation 
of  the  Americans,  they  rigged  up  a  railroad  car,  painted  a  large  stork 
at  the  back  door,  planted  several  white  rob^d  sisters  around — moving 
picture  style — with  a  painted  sign  "Au  bonheur  des  dames."  This  new 
style  of  circus  train — they  called  it  a  train — was  supposed  to  be  wait- 
ing at  the  Swiss  border  for  the  arrival  of  French  women,  who  had 
been  prisoners  in  Germany,  of  course  victims  of  German  brutality. 
Now  Frenchmen  could  not  think  of  such  vaudeville.     The  moral  issue 

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ATROCITY  LIES— (Continued) 

would  never  enter  their  noodles.  But  the  American  being  such  a 
moral  bird  put  him  up  to  that  and  had  his  picture  "took."  This  pic- 
ture was  widely  quoted  and  published  rather  late,  about  April  27, 
1918.     They  had  not  thought  of  it  earlier. 

On  Sept.  14,  1918,  the  Dallas  (Tex.)  Times-Herald  printed  the 
following  by  Corporal  W.  R.  Jewell,  Motor  Company  A.,  117th  Supply 
Train:  "In  the  advance  on  the  Marne  I  saw  young  women  hung  on 
nails  and  their  nude  bodies  cut  to  shreds  by  German  knives  and  bayo- 
nets. I  have  seen  the  dead  bodies  of  American  soldiers  mutilated, 
stabbed,  cut  and  slashed  after  they  were  killed."  In  this  lie  the 
Times-Herald  helped  out  by  heading  it  ''Women  Crucified."  So  this 
is  the  first  time  women  were  crucified;  before  that  it  was  always  a 
man  or  a  child. 

Private  R.  E.  Simms  of  Chillicothe,  O.,  wounded  at  Catigny  in 
May,  1918,  traveled  through  the  U.  S.  in  the  interest  of  the  fourth 
liberty  loan  and  lied  for  the  government  as  printed  in  miscellaneous 
papers  thusly:  "A  German  prisoner  threw  a  ball  of  yarn  on  the 
ground.  It  did  not  explode.  A  Frenchman  hit  it  with  a  long  pole, 
yet  it  would  not  explode.  Then  he  unwound  the  yarn  cautiously. 
After  many  yards  had  been  unwound  the  shameful  secret  was  dis- 
closed a  limp  white  baby's  hand,  white  save  for  one  splotch  of  dried 
blood,  was  found." 

The  above  He  would  have  sounded  better  if  liar  Simms  had  said: 
The  German  prisoner's  coat  pockets  fairly  budged  with  babies'  hands 
and  you  could  smell  them  for  blocks. 

From  Metuchen,  N.  J.,  comes  a  new  German  atrocity.  Second 
Lieut.  David  A.  Abt  says:  "The  Germans  attached  poison  berries 
to  clusters  of  growing  fruit  in  the  territory  over  which  they  retreated." 
Some  job,  this  attaching  berries  to  fruit  trees;  no  doubt  over  a  fifty- 
mile  front  on  the  run,  needing  several  trainloads. 

In  October,  1918,  the  Rev.  Geo.  A.  Griffith  of  Baltimore  as  quoted 
in  the  Literary  Digest,  Great  Divide,  North  American  Review,  etc., 
gives  some  hearsay  lies  as  follows:  "In  a  large  room  there  were  four 
Canadians  crucified,  one  on  each  wall  of  the  room."  The  Canadians 
evidently  were  the  only  ones  of  the  allied  assassins  selected  for 
crucifixion,  but  four  in  one  room  beats  the  single  barn  door  lies. 
Again  this  Rev.  liar,  whom  the  North  American  Review  denotes  as 
G.  A.  G.  chaplain,  evidently  afraid  to  hand  his  whole  vile  name  to 
posterity,  says:  "The  boches  had  taken  young  Belgian  and  French 
girls  into  their  front  line  trenches,  and  tortured  them  until  their 
screams  made  the  Scotch  and  Canadians  so  crazed  that  they  would  go 
over  into  the  machine  gun  nests,  which  the  l)Oche  had  set  up,  using 
the  women's  screams  as  a  decoy,  and  I  have  it  on  the  word  of  a  British 
officer  that  they  have  stood — the  officers— with  guns  leveled  at  their 
men  to  keep  them  from  going  over  when  the  women  scream  and  being 
needlessly  slaughtered."  Accent  on  the  needlessly  slaughtered.  The 
Germans  had  a  sense  of  humor,  there  are  plenty  boys  with  soprano 
voices  among  them,  who  can  imitate  a  midnight  yell  excellently.  The 
idea  of  course  was  to  invite  an  attack.  But  it  just  shows  to  what  low 
level  the  English  sparrow  can  sink  in  the  art  of  vilification.  In  all 
these  lies  there  is  always  the  presumption  that  the  German  is  like  the 
Englishman  or  the  American,  that  he  gets  drunk,  del^auches  and  has 
to  do  some  deviltry  to  feel  happy. 

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ATROCITY  LIES— (CcnimL^ed) 

If  all  the  excesses  of  the  (jorniaii  sohliers  <'i:-e  boiled  down,  il  no 
doubt  will  be  found  that  they  do  not  ecjual  the  criminal  records  of 
English  or  American  soldiers  in   peace   time  at  home. 

According  to  the  entente  press,  when  the  German  fights  he  is  a 
l)rute,  when  he  surrenders  he  has  a  streak  of  yellow,  when  he  licks  the 
allies  it  is  always  by  superior  numbers,  notwithstanding  that  the 
allies  mostly  outnumbered  him  5  to  1.  When  there  is  no  other  excuse 
for  allied  defeat,  he  does  not  fight  fair.  If  the  allied  coyootcs  wanted 
a  fair  fight,  why  did  not  they  attack  Germany  single-handed?  Not 
like  a  hungry  pack  of  wolves  attacking  a  sheep. 

On  Nov.  13,  1918,  after  the  armistice  was  signed,  C.  H.  Robinson, 
of  Glendo,  Wyo.,  prints  the  following  in  the  Great  Divide  of  Denver, 
Colo.:  "They  (the  Huns)  have  spread  infantile  paralysis,  lockjaw, 
tu])erculosis  and  now  are  busy  spreading  pneumonia  and  influenza 
bacteria  in  the  packing  house  meats.  *  *  *  And  in  due  time  if 
they  are  allowed  this  freedom  they  will  come  out  with  another  l)rand 
of  disease,  more  terrible  than  those  thus  far  introduced.  Down  with 
tlie  Hun."  Of  course  this  is  the  writing  of  one  single  American,  of 
lhe  variety  known  as  "Jay"  or  among  the  Germans  as  "Kaffer,"  but 
it  shows  the  spirit  of  a  poor,  deluded  reptile.  The  Spanish  influenza 
after  all  accounts  seems  to  be  introduced  by  the  Allies  from  far  Man- 
churia and  China  by  shipping  Chinese  coolies  for  trench  work  into 
France.  The  Spanish  influenza  being  the  infatile  stage  of  the  Asiastic 
plague.  So  of  all  the  sins  of  the  allies,  spreading  the  Spanish  influ- 
enza is  the  worst,  six  million  people  having  died  from  this  disease 
according  to  the  medical  correspondent  of  the  London  Times  of  Dec. 
20,  1918.  In  the  killing  business  Germany  is  a  perfect  amateur  if  not 
a  saint. 

The  atrocity  lying  was  carried  on  as  late  as  the  end  of  1920,  at 
county  fairs,  where  through  the  Wortham  Shows  vile  photograplis  and 
a  steel-studded  club  were  exhil)ited,  the  latter  labeled  "For  killing  the 
wounded." 


—21— 


THE  NEW  YORKER  STAATS-ZEITUNG 

You  honest  Germans  who  suffered  the  AYi  years  of  a  defensive 
war  against  greed  and  rapacit}^  you  wonder  about  the  mystery  of 
the  U.  S.  joining  the  robber-entente,  you  reached  the  conclusion  that 
the  people  in  the  U.  S.  must  be  crazy,  I  recommend  you  to  read  the 
American  newspaper  files  for  the  period  of  the  war  and  for  blackness 
of  heart  and  vileness  of  spirit,  there  has  been  nothing  to  equal  it 
since  naked  Christians  were  fed  to  the  wild  beasts  in  the  Roman 
arenas.  Crazy?  Not  by  any  means.  The  American  nation's  record 
for  murder  and  homicide  is  the  blackest  of  any  nation  on  earth,  the 
head  hunters  of  New  Guiena  not  excepted.  Couple  with  that  a  glib, 
brilliant,  narrow  brained,  unbridled  press,  who  is  totally  unable  to  do 
any  deeper  thinking,  devoid  of  all  conscience  ignorant  of  European 
conditions,  immensely  conceited,  advocating  war  and  a  nation  of  nat- 
ural born  meddlesom.e  dupes  would  naturally  break  loose,  looking  with 
bloodshot  eyes  .^i  huns.  It  is  easy  to  get  an  excuse  for  war.  Just 
skout  patriotism  and  race  hatred  will  mount  sky-high. 

The  German  Press  in  America,  like  the  Press  in  Germany,  were 
too  untalented  to  compete  with  the  vicious  American  native  article, 
b(?sides  they  were  suppressed  by  law.     Some  even  joined  the  liars. 

The  New  Yorker  Staats  Zeitung  in  August,  1918,  in  their  debit 
and  credit  article  on  Gerlmany,  says:  "Four  years  ago,  as  Prince 
Lichnowssky  has  shown  us,  the  German  military  party,  by  declaring 
war  upon  Russia  brought  on  a  catastrophe  under  which  the  world 
must  suffer  unspeakably." 

Now  that  Pole  and  traitor,  Lichnowsky  never  revealed  anything 
that  any  jury  could  construe  into  proof  that  Germany  started  the 
war,  but  here  comes  the  New  Yorker  Staats  Zeitung,  licks  spittel  of 
the  English  American,  and  helps  to  kill  a  few  more  innocent  Germans. 
This  caused  great  rejoicing  among  the  so-called  pure  American  scribes 
and  the  article  was  widely  quoted.  It  was  so  real  American.  In  vain 
did  the  few  intelligent  Americans  hope  for  explanations,  elucidations 
and  refutations  of  the  lies  heaped  upon  the  German  Army  from  the 
German  Government. 

That  Government  either  was  unaware  of  the  vilifications  and  slan- 
der going  on,  or  too  stupid  to  publish  even  a  semblance  of  defense. 

When  Edward  Grey  of  England,  first  assistant  instigator  of  the 
world  war,  suggested  that  before  talking  peace  it  would  be  better  to 
find  out  which  nation  started  the  war,  as  if  he  did  not  know,  the  Ger- 
man Chancellor,  Bethmann-Hollweg,  merely  pointed  to  Russia  as  the 
guilty  one.  He  was  correct,  but  his  manner  totally  failed  to  convince 
the  world.  Perhaps  Grey  had  some  doubts  about  the  world  being  suc- 
cessfully buncoed  into  the  belief  of  Germany's  guilt,  and  better  put  out 
a  feeler. 


-22- 


THE  GERMAN-AMERICANS  NOT  TO  BLAME 

Later,  in  1918,  when  the  Germans  were  recoiling  from  the  stall-fed 
Americans,  von  Kuhlman  said  Germany  had  no  intention  of  world 
power,  having  Napoleon's  failures  too  well  before  them.  Von  Hert- 
ling,  in  September,  1918,  again  blamed  Russia  for  starting  the  war, 
and  America  laughed.  American  lies  were  too  well  rooted  to  be  torn 
up  by  one  assertion.  Lying  in  America  was  done  systematically. 
Every  morning  before  breakfast  the  old  lies  repeated,  new  ones  added 
and  three  times  in  the  press.  At  night  moving  pictures  and  ribald 
songs,  365  days  in  the  year.  Any  truthful  page  in  the  school  text 
books  torn  out.  Myers'  General  History  suppressed  altogether.  In 
the  public  libraries  all  German  literature  suppressed.  For  the  blacker 
Germany  was  painted  the  whiter  the  robber  entente,  which  now  in- 
cluded America,  wold  look  in  the  eyes  of  the  world.  Ragamuffin 
countries,  barely  able  to  read  and  write,  declared  war  on  Germany  and 
began  to  steal  German  ships  under  one  pretense  or  another.  I'razil 
even  wanted  to  claim  indemnities  for  mobilization. 

The  German  Government  and  the  German  press,  the  latter  locked 
with  military  lockjaw  for  years,  no  doubt  carry  consider-able  of  the 
guilt  of  America's  joining  the  war  by  their  silence.  If  the  first  lies 
had  been  nailed  promptly,  other  lies  could  not  have  increased  and  mul- 
tiplied. To  accuse  the  German-American  of  negligence  in  this  is 
wrong.  His  assertions  could  not  carry  the  weight  that  the  home  article 
would.     He  was  absolutely  without  support.     . 

Just  as  Robespiere  ruled  with  the  guillotine  in  France,  so  the  liars, 
jingoes,  grafters,  fire-eaters  and  German  baiters  ruled  the  United 
States  under  the  guise  of  vigilantes,  coiuT^ils  of  defense,  protective 
security  leagues,  yellow-dog  clubs,  patriotic  high-binders,  etc.  Any 
decent  citizen  would  have  to  do  their  bidding,  and  not  1)e  stingy  with 
>^  his  shekels.  So  successful  were  the  lying  newspapers  that  on  Septem- 
ber 15,  1918,  George  Creel  before  the  Chicago  Association  of  Com- 
merce announced:  "The  struggle  for  public  opinion  of  the  world  is 
won."  This  properly  translated  meant  entente  lies  in  the  world  are 
supreme.  The  United  States  and  the  world  are  successfully  buncoed. 
You  stupid  German  editors  note  what  unison  can  do  in  vilification. 
The  entente  criminally  started  the  war,  yet  Germany  is  publicly  proved 
the  criminal  and  the  entente  the  saint,  pocketing  righteously  the  loot 
for  the  sake  of  liberty  and  fair  dealing.  In  December,  1918,  Captain 
G.  B.  Lester  of  the  Army  Intelligence  Service  testified  bcfo"e  the 
Senate  committee  investigating  brewers  and  German  propaganda  that 
the  Berlin  Government  on  July  10,  1914,  nearly  a  month  before  the 
war  started,  called  into  conference  about  131  trained  and  educated 
German  propargandists  and  sent  them  to  all  parts  of  the  world  with 
instructions  to  prepare  for  the  world  war,  which  was  about  to  be  pre- 
cipitated. An  unnamed  informant,  now  interned,  is  Captain  Lester's 
source  of  supply  of  this  fairy  tale.  For  Germany  did  not  know  of  any 
necessity  for  propaganda  in  1914.  The  German  newspaper  defense, 
improperly  called  propaganda,  became  necessary  when  Amerncan  lie 
factories  became  in  full  swing.  Captain  Lester,  trot  out  this  unnamed 
informant.     The  Kaiser  won't  hurt  him. 


—23- 


WEAK  GERMAN  PROPAGANDA 

One  sad  feature  about  the  German  character  is  that  the  German 
is  not  patriotic.  He  is  ready  to  join  any  other  country  and  fight  his 
own.  Many  of  the  great  battles  of  the  war  were  won  by  the  allies 
upon  information  as  to  time  and  opportunity  for  attack  from  German 
soldiers.  The  socialists  in  Germany  would  gladly  prove  that  Germany 
started  the  war  if  they  could,  and,  like  this  unnamed  interned  inform- 
ant, lie  to  please  their  enemies.  There  is  no  nationality  on  earth  that 
has  this  traitorious  characterisitc.  How  different  from  the  English 
sparrow. 

Did  Germany  do  anything  for  a  favorable  world  opinion?  She 
only  stamped  the  Lusitania  medal.  While  this  was  a  telling  and  clear 
way  to  show  the  world  "what  is  right  for  any  nation  is  not  right  for 
Germany,  and  that  it  is  right  to  kill  Germans,  but  not  German  haters," 
it  could  not  compete  with  the  dastardly  English  and  American  press. 
The  medal,  besides,  was  to  osmall,  while  it  no  doubt  will  make  an 
everlasting  souvenir  and  live  long  after  the  vicious,  lying  newspapers 
are  forgotten,  the  medal  should  have  been  distributed  better.  Then 
there  is  Belgium.  Belgium  became  one  of  the  entente,  if  she  was 
not  one  right  from  the  beginning.  Now,  the  policy,  that  when  five 
robbers  attack  you  and  you  can  get  only  hold  of  one,  you  bleed  that 
one  for  the  other  four,  did  not  pan  out  effectively.  Belgium  was 
the  one  robber  got  at-  and  bled  by  Germany,  but  the  liars  made  an 
atrocity  out  of  it  and  worked  it  to  the  limit.  Instead  of  reacting 
on  the  entente  it  reacted  on  Germany,  thanks  to  the  English  sparrow 
in  the  press.  This  is  a  victory  the  German  press  may  well  take  to 
licart. 

Germany,  studying  the  arts  of  peace,  fell  behind  in  the  arts  of 
war.  Carrying  on  a  war  in  biblical  style  was  wrong.  When  the  British 
burned  the  homes  of  the  Boers  and  drove  the  women  and  children  into 
concentration  camps  as  in  barbaric  times,  Germany  should  have  set 
up  a  howl,  but  she  did  not. 

If  Germany  were  to  come  to  America  and  collect  all  the  miscel- 
laneous newspaper,  magazine  and  book  liars  and  literary  assassins,  put 
them  on  mud  scows  loaded  with  other  rubbish  and  nightsoil  of  the 
damned  and  sink  them  spurlos  in  midocean,  no  doubt  it  would  be 
called  an  atrocity.  But  it  would  only  be  a  blessing  to  mankind.  There 
is  no  adequate  punishment  for  the  millions  of  murders  of  the  entente 
and  their  assistants,  the  liars  in  the  press  of  Great  Britain  and 
z\merica. 

About  the  early  devastation  of  Belgium,  it  is  perhaps  best  to  read 
over  again  the  newspapers,  where  in  1914  a  Belgian  boy  of  14  killed 
100  Boches,  another  a  German  General  looking  over  his  maps,  and 
hundreds  of  other  ambushes.  These  newspapers  are  ample  proof  that 
Germany  was  dealing  with  "Franctireurs"  or  civilian  amigos  by  day 
and  assassins  by  night.  Euxemburg  had  no  Franctireurs,  no  devasta- 
tion. 


—24— 


THE  FRENCH  IN  1870 

French  mlitarism  may  be  slightly  easier  than  Prussian  militarism, 
but  the  latter  is  an  outgrowth  of  the  former.  France  and  England 
have  been  responsible  for  rriore  wars  than  any  other  nations,  Ger- 
many, being  centrally  located,  unfortunately  furnished  the  stamping- 
ground.  But  Germany  did  not  treat  France  right  in  1870'.  No!  France 
got  a  well-deserved  licking.  Just  as  any  country  that  willfully  starts 
a  war  without  cause,  such  as  Italy,  Roumania,  Portugal  or  even  Bel- 
gium, deserves  a  good  sound  licking.  You  need  not  quote  that  old  gag 
ai)Out  the  Ems  telegram.  If  there  were  a  thousands  Ems  telegrams 
suppressed,  it  would  not  clear  France  of  frivolously  starting  the  war 
of  1870.  You  may  shed  large  tears  over  the  rape  of  Roumania.  Well, 
did  that  country  have  a  semblance  of  cause  for  war,  or  was  it  not  just 
plain  sharing  in  the;  loot  the  entente  hoped  to  capture? 

What  an  innocent,  very  much  imposed  upon  nation  France  was. 
They  forgot  all  at  once  their  teeth-gnashing  and  shouting  for  revenge 
for  forty  years.  Germany  did  not  attack  where  the  fortified  French 
Army  was,  but  outwitted  them.  Then  poor  France  was  attacked 
unprepared.  Armed  to  the  teeth  for  years,  they  were  outgeneraled. 
This  called  for  a  terrible  amount  of  sympathy  all  over  the  world.  If 
ever  any  nation  earned  its  bread  by  the  sweat  of  its  brow,  it  was 
Germany.  As  Edison  said:  'T  saw  more  tall  chimneys  in  Germany 
than  any  part  of  the  world,  hardly  any  in  France."  If  France  had 
])een  a  country  of  labor  and  peace  like  Germany,  the  world  war  would 
not  have  happened.  But  they  always  hankered  after  loot  and  overran 
Europe  under  Napoleon,  History  tells  the  balance.  She  alone  is 
responsible  for  militarism.  Napoleon  spread  it  all  over  Europe.  Prus- 
sian militarism  is  not  the  only  kind.  Krupp's  works  in  Essen  are 
after  all  engaged  more  in  the  arts  of  peace  than  war.  For  the  last 
twenty  years  the  world  has  heard  only  the  song  of  the  French  75's  and 
their  superiority.  That  alone  shows  France  worked  for  war.  Unpre- 
pared? They  were  armed  to  the  teeth  and  trained  to  the  minute.  It 
hurt  their  feelings  that  they  could  not  overrun  Europe  as  in  Napo- 
leon's time;  they  wanted  freedom — to  rob  and  vandalize  at  leisure. 
But  there  was  that  odious  German  militarism.  Hence  the  necessity  for 
an  entente.  In  August,  1917,  Harper  Leach,  a  Germanophobe  scribe, 
spread  the  cry:  "Germany  has  lied  about  her  census."  Trying  to 
excuse  the  failure  of  the  entente  in  1917  who,  had  they  known  the 
true  German  population,  perhaps  would  not  have  started  the  war. 


MESSAGES 

In  September,  1918,  Prince  Lichnowsky  published  his  lies  thusly: 
"We  (Germany)  encouraged  Count  Berchthold  to  attack  Serbia,  al- 
though no  German  interest  was  involved,  and  the  danger  of  a  world 
war  must  have  been  known  to  us,"  Liar'nowsky,  state  exactly  how 
Germany  encouraged  Count  Berchthold,  if  by  word,  letter  or  telegram, 
etc.  Germany  is  not  in  the  habit  of  meddling  in  other  people's  affairs, 
neither  in  English  or  American  style.  There  is  nothing  of  encourage- 
ment on  the  records.  Then,  again,  he  says:  "We  (Germany)  rejected 
the  British  proposals  of  mediation,  although  Serbia  under  Russian 
and  British  pressure  had  accepted  almost  the  whole  of  the  ultimatum." 
Exactly.  It  was  not  any  of  Great  Britain's  business  to  interfere  in 
strictly  Austrian  affairs,  even  if  Serbia  had  "almost"  accepted  the 
whole  of  the  ultimatum  and  Russia  was  already  marching.  British 
mediation  should  have  been  directed  to  Russia,  not  Germany.  Then, 
again,  this  liar  says:  "On  July  31,  1914,  we  (Germany)  declared  war 
against  the  Russians,  although  the  Czar  pledged  his  word  that  he  would 
not  permit  a  single  man  to  march  as  long  as  negotiations  were  going 
on,"  There  were  no  negotiations  going  on,  according  to  the  records, 
not  on  July  31,  1914,  unless  in  Sir  Edward  Grey's  imagination.  Read 
the  records.  They  are  all  printed,  Russia  mobilizing  against  the 
Czar's  will,  the  Czar's  pledge  could  not  be  trusted.  An  army  mobil- 
ized is  an  army  ready  to  strike.  In  Europe  no  country  can  permit  an 
enemy  army  near  its  borders.  It  always  amounts  to  a  declaration  of 
war.  As  this  is  so,  Russia  insisted  on  war,  and  Germany  could  not  help 
herself.  Negotiations  are  at  an  end  when  arms  are  resorted  to.  If 
Russia  did  not  want  the  war,  why  did  she  not  countermand  the  mobili- 
zation? The  border  being  wide  and  open,  could  Germany  have  acted 
otherwise?  Put  yourself  into  Germany's  shoes  before  you  accuse 
Germany  of  starting  the  war,  but  entente  liars  do  not  want  to  do  that. 
Jf  the  entente  did  not  insist  on  war,  why  did  they  not  let  Russia  and 
Germany  fight  while  the  world  looked  on?  But  France  would  not  give 
any  guaranty  of  neutrality,  and  the  English  fleet  was  already  out  at 
sea. 


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PARTIAL  LIST  OF  CULPRIT  PUBLICATIONS 

It  is  not  convenient  to  give  a  sample  and  name  of  every  lying  news- 
paper guilty  of  advocating  murder,  but  a  few  should  be  decorated 
with  the  crow  de  querre.  The  Wall  Street  Journal  comes  first.  It 
was  a  prewar  abuser  of  Germany.  Then  follow  the  Xew  York  Times, 
Springfield  (Mass.)  Republican,  World's  Work,  Christian  Science 
Monitor,  Manufacturers'  Record,  Life,  Leslie's  Weekly,  Detroit  Free 
Press,  New  York  Evening  Post,  Indianapolis  News,  Outlook,  Popular 
Mechanics,  Portland  Oregonian,  Great  Divide,  Scientific  American, 
and  hundreds  of  other  smaller  sheets. 

The  Scientific  American  is  a  devout,  religious  publication  that 
makes  two-thirds  of  its  living  by  copying  German  scientific  articles. 
It  rejoiced  greatly  at  the  robbing  of  Germany  of  her  valuable  patents. 
Every  American  patent  signed  with  the  United  States  seal  was  made 
at  once  a  scrap  of  paper.  Great  Britain  and  France  are  both  patent 
thieves.  Howeveh,  the  patent  thieves  in  some  cases  were  too  ignorant 
to  understand  the  patent. 

Then  this  religious  paper,  on  August  27,  1918.  says:  "The  Ger- 
man judges  others  by  himself.  He  knows  that  his  fatherland  is  a 
robber  nation,  ever  seeking  how  to  prey  upon  the  helpless."  Yes, 
Germany  stole  Egypt,  Gibraltar,  most  of  Africa,  India,  etc.  It  is  the 
complete  absence  of  robbing  propensities  in  Germany  that  makes 
for  study  and  scientific  investigation.  When  German  scientists  dis- 
covered indigo  artificially,  they  released  millions  of  acres  of  wheat  in 
India.  Making  things  cheaper  is  not  robbery.  Salvarsan  is  a  dis- 
covery that  is  only  equal  to  the  redemption  of  the  world.  The  auto- 
mobile industry  was  started  by  Godfriend  Daemler,  German  goods 
being  always  firsts  and  not  seconds,  like  that  of  the  entente  is  not 
robbery. 


lb— 


TRADE  ENVY 

Some  of  the  unwarranted  hate  for  everything  German  is  mostly 
inexplicable,  but  the  Hardware  Age,  a  trade  juornal,  gives  evidence 
of  the  crassest  trade  envy,  and  contrary  to  Wilson's  admonition  of 
no  boycott  or  trade  war  after  peace,  prints,  end  of  October,  1918,  the 
following  lies:  The  other  night  one  of  General  Pershing's  boys  went 
into  No  Man's  Land.  He  did  not  come  back.  Three  hours  later  a 
searching  party  went  out  to  find  him.  The  boy  had  been  killed, 
and  his  body  hacked  to  bits.  His  comrades  gathered  up  the  remains 
and  brought  them  back  in  a  sack,  chopped  to  pieces  with  German 
cutlery.  Shall  we  be  customers  of  these  bloodstained  butchers  after 
the  war?  After  six  other  atrocities  this  paper  invites  to  boycott  Ger- 
man surgical  instruments,  enameled  ware,  musical  instruments,  wire 
goods,  aluminum  goods,  etc. 

According  to  Frank  Willis,  the  Birmingham  Age-Herald  in  Janu- 
ary, 1919,  says:  The  lasting  glory  of  America  shall  be  that  she  went 
into  the  war  with  clean  hands  and  a  pure  heart  *  *  *  and  that  the 
United  States  is  not  a  country  of  money  grubbers."  No.  Spending 
forty  billions  of  dollars  to  help  rob  Germany  of  her  forty  years  of 
savings  is  not  money  grubbing,  neither  is  it  clean  hands  or  the  senti- 
ment of  a  pure  heart.  It  is  about  as  black,  dirty  and  unclean  an  action 
as  can  be.  America  had  no  business  in  this  war  except  to  help  Ger- 
many, seeing  that  she  was  beset  by  the  evil-doers  of  the  earth  ten  to 
one.  Germany,  for  the  sake  of  friendship,  would  gladly  have  fired 
Kaiserism  and  installed  Wilsonian  dictatorship.  England  would  not 
rule  the  world  with  ships  as  she  does  now.  The  seeds  of  a  thousand 
future  wars  would  not  have  been  sown  as  they  are  now  and  Bolshevism 
would  have  been   restrained  by  the  strong  hand   of  Germany. 

Says  the  Outlook  in  January,  1919,  and  this  no  doubt  is  about  the 
general  opinion  of  the  whole  satanic  English  and  American  press: 
"Germany  broke  into  Belgium  feloniously;  she  robbed,  tortured  and 
slew  Belgians  feloniously;  she  kidnapped  and  dragged  into  slavery 
Frenchmen  and  French  girls  feloniously;  she  destroyed  crops  and 
houses  without  militar}^  purpose;  she  pillaged  right  and  left,  contrary 
to  her  own  military  laws.  She  is  an  international  felon,  caught  red- 
handed,  overpowered  by  the  world's  police,  about  to  be  tried  for  mur- 
der and  rapine  and  piracy,  but  there  is  not  the  slightest  recognition  of 
the  fact  that  Germany  has  done  wrong."  Done  wrong,  ye  Gods!  Ger- 
many owes  each  and  every  one  of  the  twenty-four  nations  sitting  at 
the  peace  table  waiting  for  loot,  German  gold  or  colonies,  not  a  red 
cent,  but  a  first-clas,  righteous  licking.  What  is  there  more  felonious 
than  the  entente  conspiring  for  destruction  of  German  territory,  trade 
industry  and  progress?  World's  police?  World's  hypocrites  and 
world's  assassins.  Then  what  the  entente  could  not  accomplish  with 
powder  and  shot,  they  accomplished  with  slander  and  calumny.  If  it 
was  not  for  the  saddest  of  world  tragedies  associated  with  it,  the  world 
war  is  also  the  greatest  world  bunco  game  of  all  history. 


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THE  GERMAN  THE  ONLY  GOOD  COLONIST 

There  are  prol)ably  some  instances  in  history  where  the  lirntal  con- 
queror compelled  the  conquered  to  kiss  the  conqueror's  foot,  but  for 
general  indignities  heaped  upon  Germany  by  the  unscrupulous  con- 
querors this  war  stands  without  parallel.  From  falsifying  history  to 
belittling  the  grandeur  of  Germany,  the  English  and  American  press 
outstripped   the   felons    of   all   nations. 

Shout  these  hypocrites  in  unison:  "Germany  cannot  colonize." 
When  Dom  Pedro,  erstwhile  Emperor  of  Brazil,  wanted  to  settle  his 
vast  vacant  territories,  he  asked  the  wise  guys  of  Europe  which  nation- 
ality would  make  the  best  settlers.  He  was  promptly  told  the  Ger- 
man, and  results  are  the  prosperous  colonies  of  Rio  Grande  do  Sul, 
vSanta  Catarina  and  others  in  Brazil.  He  did  not  ask.  for  Italians. 
French,  English  or  Americans.  For  they  have  not  the  same  good 
record.  The  German  works,  develops  the  country,  is  a  taxpayer,  not  a 
taxeater,  and  strictly  sober  even  in  a  wine  cellar,  rational  and  has, 
what  is  entirely  lacking  in  the  French,  Italian,  Slav  or  American,  the 
thing  called  jollity.  There  is  no  other  nation  that  stands  a  com- 
parison with  the  German  as  a  colonist.  The  valuable,  stately  improve- 
ments from  Kiau  Chou  to  the  harbors  of  Dar  es  Salaam  or  Wind  hock 
in  Africa,  are  monuments  to  German  skill  and  energy,  and  represent 
l)illions  of  dollars  in  outlay  from  the  pockets  of  the   Germans. 

The  entente  hungered  for  these  possessions — which  were  once  re- 
jected by  them  when  not  developed,  as  useless— but  when  the  magic 
hand  of  Germany  made  the  deserts  bloom,  here  come  the  robbers  and 
want  them.  And  the  immaculate  United  States  made  this  robbery 
possible.  Joined  the  war  to  make  the  world  safe  for  democracy? 
Among  the  Wilsonian  camouflage  rhetoric  is  not  there  the  wo^d 
"self-determination?"  Did  that  mean  self-determination  limited  to 
democracy?  Tommy  rot!  America  joined  the  war  to  save  King- 
George,  to  make  the  sea  safe  for  England.  The  Americans  bled  and 
died  for  pelf,  plutocracy  and  snobocracy,  to  make  the  rich  richer  and 
the  poor  poorer.  There  is  absolutely  no  proof  that  Germany  had  any 
designs  on  any  part  of  America.  Germany's  alleged  desire  of  world 
dominion  is  a  myth.  Little  Germany,  strong  as  a  giant,  almost  a 
match  to  fight  the  whole  world,  had  the  least  worldly  possessions  of 
any  power. 


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AMERICA  DID  NOT  WANT  ANYTHING  OUT  OF 
THIS  WAR 

No  power  can  compare  itself  to  Germany  in  any  one  direction. 
The  United  States  of  America,  cramped  into  Germany  would  starve 
to  death.  Germany's  international  conduct  has  been  blameless.  No 
conspiracy,  no  secret  treaties,  no  taking-  advantage  of  inferior  nations, 
no  vilification  and  calumny.  Keeping  strictly  to  herself,  her  universi- 
ties, academies  and  great  inventions  benefiting  mankind.  Yet  now, 
robbed,  derided,  enslaved  by  hypocritical  monsters. 

Says  President  Wilson  in  his  war  message  of  April  2d,  1917:  "We 
have  no  selfish  ends  to  serve.  We  desire  no  conquest,  no  dominions. 
We  seek  no  indemnities  for  ourselves.  We  are  the  sincere  friend  of 
the  German  people."  And  addressing  Mexican  editors  in  Washington 
again  he  says:  "I  look  forward  with  pride  to  the  time  when  we  can 
give  substantial  evidence,  not  only  that  we  do  not  want  anything  out 
of  this  war,  but  that  we  should  not  accept  anything." 

Yet  the  American  Government  practically  rifled  the  pockets  of 
every  German  in  the  United  States:  "took  over"  the  Becker  Steel  Com- 
pany of  America  at  Charleston,  W.  Va.,  and  with  it  stole  the  sec"et  of 
"high-speed  steel."  "Took  over,"  likewise,  German  woolen  mills  to 
the  amount  of  a  billion  dollars,  all  German  chemical  companies;  Beers, 
.Sondheimer  &  Co.,  the  piers  of  Hamburg-American  and  North  Ger- 
man Lloyd  steamship  lines,  Lasalle  Portland  Cement  Co.,  Gestendefer 
Bros.'  paint  firm,  wiped  out  several  German  insurance  companies  and 
took  their  business;  sold  Stock  Exchange  seats  of  about  a  dozen  Ger- 
mans, seized  the  royalties  of  famous  German  musical  and  dramatic 
productions;  also  books.  Took  millions  of  dollars  worth  of  property  of 
women  of  American  birth,  who  had  married  German  husbands.  Took 
every  patent  in  the  United  States  issued  to  a  German,  and  the  sweetest 
morsel  of  all,  took  the  German  mercantile  fleet  in  the  Atlantic  and 
Pacific  oceans,  even  taking  German  ships  out  of  the  harbor  of  Peru. 

No  selfish  ends!  No,  we  just  merely  served  the  dirty  allies  to 
finish  the  "progrom"  free  of  all  evpense  except  for  the  little  inciden- 
tals enumerated  above.  We  actually  paid  eighty-five  million  dollars  to 
Great  Britain  for  transportation  of  American  troops  to  Europe. 


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GOT  MIT  UNS 

This  is  a  feat  of  generosity  without  parallel  in  international  history. 
Says  President  Wilson  to  Wilhelm  IT.:  "Your  word  cannot  he  trusted." 
As  if  the  German  word  was  not  the  only  word  in  this  wide  world  that 
could  he  trusted,  hut  that  the  brazen  deceivers  of  the  fourteen  points 
are  fit  for  the  hall  of  international  fame  for  truth  and  veracity. 

Wilhelm  IT  is  half  English,  which  entitles  him  to  l^c  half  a  liar, 
besides  he  was  sorely  l^eset  on  all  sides  l)y  forty-nine  enemies,  and  his 
mentality  certainly  was  overtaxed. 

In  December,  1918,  the  Religious  Rambler  had  a  rambling  article 
about  "Gott  mit  uns,"  as  if  God  had  forsaken  the  Germans.  God 
helped  Germany  considerable.  He  killed  many  a  young  hater  and 
some  old  ones — like  General  Sir  Frederick  T'iolierts,  England's  only 
General — with  typhoid  and  pneumonia.  In  Halifax  he  killed  several 
thousand  German  haters  with  their  own  ammunit"on.  punctured  the 
hide  of  5,000  more  with  flying  glass,  laid  two-thirds  of  the  city  waste, 
then  not  satisfied  he  sent  a  snow  and  sleet  blizzard  howling  through 
the  open  ruins  of  the  houses  and  spared  neither  women  nor  children. 
In  Houston,  Texas,  he  dropped  dead  a  lecturer  on  the  platform  as  he 
was  lying-  against  Germany;  in  Muehlhausen  he  dropped  dead  the 
Rev.  Father  Cotti.  shouting  welcome  to  the  French  troops,  and  no 
doubt  he  spread  the  Spanish  influenza,  especially  among  the  German 
haters,  so  that  a  great  amount  of  hate  now  lies  unde-  the  sod.  He 
killed  Captain  William  Martin  of  the  British  trawler  King  Stephen 
slowly  and  by  degrees  and  in  misery  for  refusing  to  rescue  the  crew 
of  Zeppelin  L-19  in  the  North  Sea.  He  blinded  Sir  Edward  Grey,  but 
somehow  and  mysteriously  so  far  spared  Winston  Spencer  Churchil] 
and  M.  Delcasse.  And  he  (God)  forsook  Germany  only  when  vSatan 
fetched  up  from  America  a  new  Christ  and  saviour  of  Europe.  The 
son  of  a  Presbyterian  preacher,  versed  in  bogus  history,  politics  and 
prohibition.  When  God  found  out  that  William  TI's  mouth  and  his 
mouthpieces  were  no  match  for  this  new  wo"ld  deliverer,  right  tliere 
and   then   God   forsook  Germany.     Die   Dummlieit  war  zu   gross. 

A  GERMAN  VICTORY  WOULD  HAVE  MEANT  PEACE 

/Vdadly  would  God  have  let  Germany  win  the  world  war,  for  it 
woirnl  have  meant  permanent  peace  in  Europe  and  prosperity  for  all, 
while  the  Wilsonian  peace  means  endless  thousands  of  warsT^  Had 
Germany  won  the-e  would  have  been  at  least  partial  freedom  of  the 
sea,  but  with  the  help  of  this  new  saviour  the  non-combatants  of  all 
countries  are  at  the  mercy  of  brutal,  smirking,  pious  Albion  and  crazy 
France,  the  disturber  of  Europe,  restless,  merciless  and  fanatical, 
studying  up  new  extortions.  And  with  Czechs,  Polacks  and  Slovaks 
turned  loose,  Europe  now  resembles  a  madhouse.  For  be  it  known 
Europe  is  not  readv  for  any  'democracy,  much  less  American  de- 
mocracy.    Tt  all  leads   to   Bolshevism  and   internal   strife. 

It  is  a  misfortune  that  the  crowned  heads  of  Europe  are  one  and 
^]] — like  the  American  millionaire — not  identified  with  any  progress 
benefiting  mankind.  For  that  reason,  and  for  that  only  is  royalty  to 
be  condemned.  A  wise  dictatorship  or  a  wise  autocracy  would  work 
wonders  in  Europe  or  America. 


—29- 


MIGHT  MAKING  RIGHT 

In  June,  1919,  the  peace  conference  sent  their  final  reply  to  the 
German  peace  delegates  by  Clemenceau,  the  baboon  of  France.  In  this 
letter,  which  is  an  exact  counterpart  of  the  writings  of  the  New  York 
Times,  there  occurs  the  following:  "The  allied  and  associated  powers, 
therefore  feel  it  necessary  to  begin  their  reply  by  a  clear  statement 
of  the  judgment  of  the  world,  which  has  been  forged  by  practically  the 
whole  of  civilized  mankind."  Answer:  This  judgment  has  been 
formed  without  regard  of  fact  and  evidence  on  lies  and  in  the  heart 
of  criminals,  with  malice  aforethought,  aggression  and  assassination. 
Another  passage  of  this  Anglo-Saxon  document  of  hypocrisy  deliv- 
ered by  a  frog-eater,  reads  thusly:  "The  war  which  began  on  August 
1st,  1914,  was  the  greatest  crime  against  humanity  and  freedom  of  the 
people  that  any  nation  calling  itself  civilized  has  ever  committed." 
Answer:  Note  the  letter  does  not  mention  Germany  as  beginning  the 
war  on  August  1st,  1914,  but  a  nation  calling  itself  civilized.  This  is 
hedging,  for  there  is  no  doubt  that  the  war  is  the  greatest  crime  ever 
committed  by  the  entente,  the  allied  powers  and  their  associates. 
Another  passage:  "Germany  educating  their  subjects  that  might  was 
right."  Answer:  Is  it  not?  The  entente  and  associates  forcing  a  peace 
of  hate,  wrong  and  injustice  contrary  to  the  fourteen  points,  is  the 
worst  sample  of  might  making  right  the  world  has  ever  seen.  But 
here  is  the  proof  of  the  Anglo-Saxon  origin  of  the  letter:  "The  allied 
and  associated  powers  believe  they  would  be  false  to  those  who  have 
given  their  all  to  save  the  freedom  of  the  world,  if  they  consent  to 
treat  war  on  any  other  basis  than  as  a  crime  against  humanity." 
Answer:  The  blood  and  agony  of  those  who  have  fallen  in  this  war 
is  on  the  heads  of  the  hypocrites  who  started,  who  prolonged  and  en- 
larged it,  and  I  deny  that  the  sadly  misguided  victims  lying  in  Flanders 
fields,  except  the  German,  died  but  for  oppression  and  the  vilest  selfish 
passions,  for  jingoism,  race  hatred  and  to  make  Europe  a  worse 
country  to  live  in.  The  highest  ideal  of  the  best  among  them  was  to 
enslave   toiling  Germany   without   cause. 


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THE  REMEDIES 

No  matter  how  much  you  justify  and  whitewash  the  entrance  of 
the  United  States  into  the  world's  greatest  crime,  whether  as  unhappy 
coincidence  or  sad  mistake,  the  damage  is  not  beyond  remedial  effort. 
Sober   consideration    might    bring   repair. 

When  America  found  out  that  the  entente  did  not  adhere  to  the  ^ 
fourteen  points  promised,  American  guns  should  have  been  promptly 
turned   on  the  allies   (entente)   and  those  hypocritical  assassins  made 
to    keep    their    promises.      This    would    have    put    the    crimp    on    many 
future  marauding  wars. 

What   is   the   remedy? 

1st.  As  the  greatest  evil  resulting  from  the  war  with  the  German 
fleet  out  of  the  way  is  the  British  control  of  the  waters  of  the  world, 
whereby  they  can  and  do  make  war  on  non-combatants,  women  and 
children  through  their  inhuman  blockade,  terrorize  and  roi)  ne.itra.s 
contrary  to  all  international  agreements,  withhold  raw  material,  rifle 
the  mails  of  other  nations,  spy  into  trade  secrets  and  tyrannize  gen- 
erally, the  United  States  should  build  immediately  a  large  and  power- 
ful navy  to  put  a  stop  to  this  kind  of  .barbarity.  O^ternational  law 
cannot  be  relied  on  with  Great  Britai]TT7  To  fraternize  with  Great 
Britain  jjieans  surrendering  your  pocketbook  or  be  a  j:ompanion  in 
crime.    [No  true  American  could  or  should  think  of  thatj 

2d.  As  of  all  the  h3^phens  in  the  United  States,  the  British-Ameri- 
can is  the  slowest  to  be  assimilated  and  has  for  generations  a  greater 
regard  for  the  United  Kingdom  than  the  United  States,  witness  for 
instance  a  certain  Woodrow  Wilson  and  as  the  fo"ty  billion  war 
indebtedness,  loss  of  human  lives,  high  cost  of  living  may  well  be  laid 
to  the  door  of  the  English  element  in  the  Unilied  States,  the  insidious 
liritish  propaganda  in  the  United  States  should  be  curbed,  no  matter 
how  loud  he  shouts  T  am  American!'  The  Anglomaniac  and  Anglo- 
phile is  more  dangerous  in  the  United  States  than  any  anarchist. 
They  would  sell  this  adopted  country  for  a  song. 

3d.  If  the  United  States  stands  up  for  "freedom,"  and  the  French 
nation  with  the  aid  of  the  British,  the  vampire  of  the  universe,  made 
galley  slaves  of  the  whole  German  nation  and  intend  to  do  so  for 
generations  to  come,  it  becomes  necessary  to  abrogate  the  diabolical 
treaty  of  Versailles.  The  more  so,  since  the  United  States  is  not 
indebted  to  France,  for  the  latter  tried  to  put  an  Emperor  on  a  throne 
in  Mexico  to  antagonize  the  United  States  in  1855.  If  Germany  ever 
made  any  unprovoked  attack  on  France  I  want  the  liar  to  prove  it. 
France  wants  Germany  to  disarm,  so  that  she  can  collect  a  perpetual 
income  and  annuity  from  the  German  toilers.  This  is  their  idea  of 
freedom,  systematized  robbery,  formerly  practiced  only  in  the  distant 
ages  or  the  jungles  of  Africa.  France  is  guilty  of  this  war  as  all 
previous  ones  in  which  the  French  ever  participated.  The  present 
league  of  nations  is  only  meant  to  perpetuate  the  robber  entente  and 
to  hold  the  loot,  cash,  colonies  and  trade  the  entente  has  secured 
through  the  aid  of  the  United  States.  Disarmament  is  only  for  Ger- 
many. To  make  modern  slavery  of  Germany  possible.  As  to  devasta- 
tion, the  paricipants  in  any  fight  or  brawl,  waiving  the  cause,  are 
equally  responsible  for  destruction  of  property.  The  French  guns  did 
as  much  damage  as  the  Germans.  It  is  the  duty  of  the  bandit-allies 
to  pay  the  fiddler.  Germany  does  not  ov^^e  any  debt  to  her  assailants, 
let  alone  the  impossible,  unheard-of  Inirden  imposed  upon  her  as  a 
moral  obligation. 

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4.  Restore  to  Germany  her  colonies  and  establish  real  "self-deter- 
mination" to  the  people  of  Alsace  and  Lorraine,  Posen,  Danfzig,  Ger- 
man-Austria, German  Tyrol,  the  Saar  Valley  and  Schleswig-Holstein. 
Put  an  end  to  allied  military  occupation  of  German  territory  at  Ger- 
man expense,  particularly  the  outrages  of  the  French  colonial  (col- 
ored) troops.  Permit  Germany  to  arm  herself  like  her  bandit  neigh- 
bors. Germany  armed,  alone  can  do  wonders  in  establishing  order. 
German  arms  are  needed  to  stabilize  Europe  and  end  enormous  vol- 
umes of  misery  and  degradation.  A  league  of  nations  cannot  or  will 
not  do  that.  German  arms  have  never  been  abused  like  those  of  the 
entente  and  its  cohorts.  No  history  liar  can  prove  anything  to  the 
contrary.  Restore  the  thousands  of  cattle  and  horses  stolen  from 
Germany  through  the  iniquitous  peace  treaty  of  Versailles.  Yes,  but 

Germany  stole  those  cattle  from  her  enemies.     You  are  a  .     The 

cows  and  draft  animals  were  the  first  thing  saved  when  allied  schemes 
fi-"V-^  anc''  /;nded  in  retreat. 

5.  Put  an  end  to  the  practice  of  the  entente  of  cudgeling  smaller 
powers  into  war  on  the  entente  side,  as  for  instance  Greece  was 
coerced.  This  kind  of  tyranny  is  not  consistent  with  liberty  and  jus- 
tice. The  United  States  cannot  stay  out  of  world's  affairs.  Although 
the  Wilson  policy  was  a  terrible  and  disgraceful  mistake,  such  mis- 
takes need  not  to  be  repeated.  United  vStates  influence  for  good  can 
be  had  without  war.  While  Wilsonian  race  hatred  and  war  hydro- 
phobia may  again  break  out  with  official  sanction,  making  of  the 
United  States  of  America  the  United  States  uf  the  World  is  a  possi- 
bility. 


Fellow   American    Citizens: 

While  peace  is  declared,  peace  in  the  heart  of  the  British-American 
is  not  wanted,  not  as  evidenced  in  the  sporad  c  outbreaks  of  the  daily 
press.  Germany  is  the  fence  rail  in  his  craw  now,  just  as  before  the 
war,  and  as  the  press  one  and  all  will.ignor-  this  pamphlet,  so  dear 
reader  and  lover  of  the  truth,  it  becomes  /our  duty  to  pass  this 
pamphlet  along  and  letj^jame  little  light  be  c;  st  in  the  dark  places  of 
the  twentieth  century.  [The  disciples  of  Sate  i  are  evidently  at  large 
in  the  clqa^  of  British  itrribes  and  pharisees  arrying  on  a  war  with- 
out cannoiu  Germany  is  paralyzed,  dazed,  si  ;k  unto  death  and  help- 
less. Pas<^t  along.  Fresh  lies  and  from».entirely  different  angle  will 
appear  daily  or  weekly  in  the  press.  ^H  _are  recognizable  by  the 
intense  malice  and  hate  glaring  through  then^] 

C^Pass   the   pamphlet   along,   reprint   it   and    do   not   allow   it   to   be 
suppressed,   or   humane   reasons   if  no  other^' 

THE  AUTHOR. 

NO  WAR  HISTORY  IS  COMPLETE  WITHOUT  THIS 
PAMPHJET. 


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